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Tiny electrostatic traps

Nature volume 467, pages 666–667 (2010)Cite this article

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Methods for trapping tiny particles are increasingly needed, especially for biological assays, but they often involve complicated apparatus. An approach has been discovered that could simplify matters considerably. See Letter p.692

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Figure 1: Caught in a trap.

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  1. Jan C. T. Eijkel and Albert van den Berg are at the MESA+ Institute for Nanotechnology, University of Twente, PO Box 217, 7500 AE Enschede, the Netherlands. j.c.t.eijkel@utwente.nl ,

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