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SUBMITTER: Arlt J
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5823856 | biostudies-other | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Nature communications 20180222 1
Self-assembly is a promising route for micro- and nano-fabrication with potential to revolutionise many areas of technology, including personalised medicine. Here we demonstrate that external control of the swimming speed of microswimmers can be used to self assemble reconfigurable designer structures in situ. We implement such 'smart templated active self assembly' in a fluid environment by using spatially patterned light fields to control photon-powered strains of motile Escherichia coli bacte ...[more]