Soft Matter paper highlighted in Chemistry World:
US researchers have made nanowires that can be propelled through liquids with an external magnetic field. The wires could be used to deliver drugs in the human body.
Eric Lauga and Joseph Wang from the University of California San Diego and colleagues made the nanoswimmers by attaching nickel heads to gold tails. They used a magnetic field to propel the wires through human serum, which means that they have potential for use in biomedical applications, such as targeted drug delivery, as no chemicals or fuel sources are required…. Read the rest of the article here.
