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Want to learn more about magnetic carpets?

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Magnetic Carpet – Future of Materials

A controllable magnetically responsive surface.

Magnetic Carpet – Future of Materials
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What does the future hold for magnetic carpets? Will they give rise to a new industrial hybrid, like a self-sorting conveyor belt, or is their true calling yet to be revealed? Do these wiggly, willful surfaces go beyond the domestic bliss of a self-cleaning carpet?
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Here you see samples of magnetic carpets in the lab.
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Further to their stellar resume, magnetic carpets can also transport liquids. Slowly but steadily – like natural cilia.
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Magnetic carpets transport solids with finesse. They sort, separate, and even move uphill!
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Magnets under the surface activate the hairs. Each hair independently reacts to the magnetic forces by bending down or stretching up. This can be used to move objects around.

🕹️ Try it out yourself here: https://futureofmaterials.com/en/materials/magnetic-carpet/#Properties (scroll down).

Magnetic Carpet – Future of Materials

A controllable magnetically responsive surface.

Magnetic Carpet – Future of Materials
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The carpet hairs are actually only 2.5mm tall. But what makes them move?
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They’re soft and flexible and they can bend and turn individually. These tiny hairs are made of soft silicone with powder of neodymium iron boron inside.
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The Magnetic Carpet is an experimental material by Ahmet Demirörs, Sophia Ganzeboom and Sümeyye Aykut at Complex Materials Group at ETH Zurich.

It is a reactive surface with tiny magnetic hairs. Inspired by cilia, nature’s smallest movers, they interact with objects on their surface.