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Noncontact orientation of objects in three-dimensional space using magnetic levitation
Edited by Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, and approved July 25, 2014 (received for review May 11, 2014)

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- Published in issue September 9, 2014.
- Published first August 25, 2014.
Author Information
- Anand Bala Subramaniama,
- Dian Yangb,
- Hai-Dong Yua,
- Alex Nemiroskia,
- Simon Tricarda,
- Audrey K. Ellerbeea,
- Siowling Soha, and
- George M. Whitesidesa,c,d,1
- aDepartment of Chemistry and Chemical Biology,
- bSchool of Engineering and Applied Science,
- cWyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering, and
- dThe Kavli Institute for Bionano Science, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138
Edited by Joseph M. DeSimone, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, and approved July 25, 2014 (received for review May 11, 2014)
Footnotes
- ↵1To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: gwhitesides{at}gmwgroup.harvard.edu.
Author contributions: A.B.S., S.T., and G.M.W. designed research; A.B.S., D.Y., H.-D.Y., S.T., A.K.E., and S.S. performed research; A.B.S., D.Y., H.-D.Y., A.N., and G.M.W. analyzed data; and A.B.S., A.K.E., and G.M.W. wrote the paper.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.
This article is a PNAS Direct Submission.
This article contains supporting information online at www.pnas.org/lookup/suppl/doi:10.1073/pnas.1408705111/-/DCSupplemental.
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