Motion and trapping of micro- and millimeter-sized particles on the air–paramagnetic-liquid interface
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A1 Alkuperäisartikkeli tieteellisessä aikakauslehdessä
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2021-01-25
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en
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6
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Physical Review E, Volume 103, issue 1
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Understanding the motion of particles on an air-liquid interface can impact a wide range of scientific fields and applications. Diamagnetic particles floating on an air–paramagnetic-liquid interface are previously known to have a repulsive motion from a magnet. Here, we show a motion mechanism where the diamagnetic particles floating on the air–paramagnetic-liquid interface are attracted and eventually trapped at an off-center distance from the magnet. The behavior of magnetic particles has been also studied and the motion mechanisms are theorized in a unified framework, revealing that the motion of particles on an air–paramagnetic-liquid interface is governed not only by magnetic energy, but as an interplay of the curvature of the interface deformation created by the nonuniform magnetic field, the gravitational potential, and the magnetic energy from the particle and the liquid. The attractive motion mechanism has been applied in directed self-assembly and robotic particle guiding.Description
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Surface and interfacial phenomena, Gas-liquid interface, magnetic interactions, capillarity
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Cenev, Z, Wurger, A & Zhou, Q 2021, ' Motion and trapping of micro- and millimeter-sized particles on the air–paramagnetic-liquid interface ', Physical Review E, vol. 103, no. 1, 010601, pp. 1-6 . https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevE.103.L010601