Magnetic tweezers are scientific instruments for the manipulation and characterization of biomolecules or polymers. These apparatus exert forces and torques to individual molecules or groups of molecu
Crick at Cambridge University
Dr. Fell at her lab in Cambridge in the 1950s
Ferrofluid is a dark coloured liquid that is attracted to the poles of a magnet. It is a colloidal liquid made of nanoscale ferromagnetic or ferrimagnetic particles suspended inside a carrier fluid. E
Magnetic tweezers
…application. Two basic types of magnetic particles are described in the following paragraphs; however there are also others like magnetic nanoparticles in ferrofluids, which allow experiments inside a cell. Superparamagnetic beads are commercially available with a number of different characteristics. The most common…
Ferrofluid on glass, with a neodymium magnet underneath
Steve Papell invented ferrofluid for NASA in 1963
R. E. Rosensweig with ferrofluid in his lab (1965)
Ferrofluid is the oily substance collecting at the poles of a magnet which is underneath the brown oil.