title: Magnetically Patterned Rolled-Up Exchange Bias Tubes: A Paternoster for Superparamagnetic Beads.
abstract: We realized a deterministic transport system for superparamagnetic microbeads through micrometer-sized tubes acting as channels. Beads are moved stepwise in a paternoster-like manner through the tube and back on top of it by weak magnetic field pulses without changing the field pulse polarity and taking advantage of the magnetic stray field emerging from the tubular structures. The microtubes are engineered by rolling up exchange bias layer systems, magnetically patterned into parallel stripe magnetic domains. In this way, the tubes possess distinct azimuthally aligned magnetic domain patterns. This transport mechanism features high step velocities and remote control of not only the direction and trajectory but also the velocity of the transport without the need of fuel or catalytic material. Therefore, this approach has the potential to impact several fields of 3D applications in biotechnology, including particle transport related phenomena in lab-on-a-chip and lab-in-a-tube devices.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel , Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany.
authors.forename: Timo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ueltzhöffer
authors.affiliation: Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden) , Helmholtzstraße 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Streubel
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel , Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany.
authors.forename: Iris
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Koch
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel , Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany.
authors.forename: Dennis
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Holzinger
authors.affiliation: Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden) , Helmholtzstraße 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Denys
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Makarov
authors.affiliation: Institute for Integrative Nanosciences, Leibniz Institute for Solid State and Materials Research Dresden (IFW Dresden) , Helmholtzstraße 20, 01069 Dresden, Germany.
authors.forename: Oliver G
authors.initials: OG
authors.lastname: Schmidt
authors.affiliation: Institute of Physics and Center for Interdisciplinary Nanostructure Science and Technology (CINSaT), University of Kassel , Heinrich-Plett-Strasse 40, 34132 Kassel, Germany.
authors.forename: Arno
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ehresmann
keywords: exchange bias; ion bombardment induced magnetic patterning; lab-in-a-tube; lab-on-a-chip; particle transport; rolled-up tube; superparamagnetic beads