Figure 1.
MANiAC synthesis. (A) A syringe pump pushes the mixture of magnetic nanorods and alginate through an aligning magnet prior to reaching the blunted needle tip. A high voltage source supplies ~8 kV between the Ca2+ solution and the syringe generates a dropwise extraction of capsules embedded with aligned nanorods. (B) Optical image of aligned nanorods in alginate capsule. Scale bar = 100 µm.