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Title: | Magnetic Trapping of Bacteria at Low Magnetic Fields | Authors: | Wang, Z.M Wu, R.G Wang, Z.P Ramanujan, R.V |
Keywords: | metal nanoparticle Bacillus megaterium chemistry isolation and purification lab on a chip magnet magnetic field microbiology microfluidic analysis Bacillus megaterium Lab-On-A-Chip Devices Magnetic Fields Magnets Metal Nanoparticles Microfluidic Analytical Techniques |
Issue Date: | 2016 | Citation: | Wang, Z.M, Wu, R.G, Wang, Z.P, Ramanujan, R.V (2016). Magnetic Trapping of Bacteria at Low Magnetic Fields. Scientific Reports 6 : 26945. ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep26945 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International | Abstract: | A suspension of non-magnetic entities in a ferrofluid is referred to as an inverse ferrofluid. Current research to trap non-magnetic entities in an inverse ferrofluid focuses on using large permanent magnets to generate high magnetic field gradients, which seriously limits Lab-on-a-Chip applications. On the other hand, in this work, trapping of non-magnetic entities, e.g., bacteria in a uniform external magnetic field was studied with a novel chip design. An inverse ferrofluid flows in a channel and a non-magnetic island is placed in the middle of this channel. The magnetic field was distorted by this island due to the magnetic susceptibility difference between this island and the surrounding ferrofluid, resulting in magnetic forces applied on the non-magnetic entities. Both the ferromagnetic particles and the non-magnetic entities, e.g., bacteria were attracted towards the island, and subsequently accumulate in different regions. The alignment of the ferrimagnetic particles and optical transparency of the ferrofluid was greatly enhanced by the bacteria at low applied magnetic fields. This work is applicable to lab-on-a-chip based detection and trapping of non-magnetic entities bacteria and cells. | Source Title: | Scientific Reports | URI: | https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/178900 | ISSN: | 20452322 | DOI: | 10.1038/srep26945 | Rights: | Attribution 4.0 International |
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