Electric fields steered nanoparticles through a liquid-filled maze – this new method could improve drug delivery and purification systems

By: Daniel K. Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder and Ankur Gupta, University of Colorado Boulder, The Conversation

Outlets: The Conversation

Published: November 10, 2025

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Last Updated: 2 weeks ago

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By Daniel K. Schwartz, University of Colorado Boulder and Ankur Gupta, University of Colorado Boulder

In the home, the lab and the factory, electric fields control technologies such as Kindle displays, medical diagnostic tests and devices that purify cancer drugs. In an electric field, anything with an electrical charge – from an individual atom to a large particle – experiences a force that can be used to push it in a desired direction.

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