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Colour-coded microcarriers

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Nature Materials volume 9, pages 697–698 (2010)Cite this article

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A magnetically colour-tunable material is used to create colour-coded microparticles that can be manipulated using magnetic fields and are suitable for use in multiplex bioassays.

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Figure 1: The principle of multiplex suspension arrays.
Figure 2: Magnetically manipulatable colour-encoded microparticles.

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  1. Kevin Braeckmans and Stefaan C. De Smedt are in the Laboratory of General Biochemistry and Physical Pharmacy, Ghent University, Harelbekestraat 72, 9000 Gent, Belgium. Kevin.Braeckmans@UGent.be,

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Braeckmans, K., De Smedt, S. Made to move. Nature Mater 9, 697–698 (2010). https://doi.org/10.1038/nmat2836

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