Effect of surfactants on the performance of tubular and spherical micromotors-a comparative study
Simmchen, Juliane (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Magdanz, Veronika (Institut für Integrative Nanowissenschaften. IFW Dresden)
Sanchez, Samuel (Max-Planck-Institut für Intelligente Systeme)
Chokmaviroj, Sarocha (Chulalonkorn University)
Ruiz-Molina, Daniel (Institut Català de Nanociència i Nanotecnologia)
Baeza, Alejandro (Universidad Complutense de Madrid. Departamento de Química Inorgánica)
Schmidt, Oliver G. (Institut für Integrative Nanowissenschaften. IFW Dresden)

Date:	2014
Abstract:	The development of artificial micromotors is one of the greatest challenges of modern nanotechnology. Even though many kinds of motors have been published in recent times, systematic studies on the influence of components of the fuel solution are widely missing. Therefore, the autonomous movement of Pt-microtubes and Pt-covered silica particles is comparatively observed in the presence and absence of surfactants in the medium. One representative of each of the three main surfactant classes-anionic (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS), cationic (benzalkonium chloride, BACl) and non-ionic (Triton X)-has been chosen and studied.
Grants:	Ministerio de Economía y Competitividad MAT2012-38318-C03-02 European Commission 311529
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Language:	Anglès
Document:	Article ; recerca ; Versió publicada
Subject:	Autonomous movement ; Benzalkonium chloride ; Comparative studies ; Fuel solutions ; Nonionic ; Silica particles ; Systematic study ; Triton-X
Published in:	RSC advances, Vol. 4, Issue 39 (April 2014) , p. 20334-20340, ISSN 2046-2069

DOI: 10.1039/c4ra02202e
PMID: 25364501

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