Uploaded November 2013 | Updated September 2026, 20 hours ago

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Chemical engineers have designed tiny particles that can "steer" themselves along preprogrammed trajectories and align themselves to flow through the center of a microchannel, making it possible to control the particles' flow through microfluidic devices without applying any external forces.

Source: MIT

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