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A 'Magnetic Edge' Allows Tiny Cubes to Self-Assemble On Demand (7 of 10)

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A 'Magnetic Edge' Allows Tiny Cubes to Self-Assemble On Demand (7 of 10)

video: Reversible folding of microcubes assembled in various top-bottom orientations (dubbed ABBB, ABBA, and BBAA sequences). This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Aug. 4, 2017, issue of Science Advances, published by AAAS. The paper, by K. Han at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, NC, and colleagues was titled, 'Sequence-encoded colloidal origami and microbot assemblies from patchy magnetic cubes.' view more 

Credit: [Credit: Han <em>et al.</em>, Sci. Adv. 2017;3: e1701108]


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