Autori: M-I. Piso, R. Popa, L. Vekas

Editorial: S. Odenbach, Cont. Papers to the 11th Int. Conference of Magnetic Fluids and Applications, 2001.

Rezumat:

The present paper is an attempt to find definite analogies between some outstanding features of the magnetic fluids and the magnetic bacteria, as model and experimental levels. An ap-propriate study of the common and complementary features could conduct to the idea of gen-erating some common systems / aggregates. A living system – a culture of magnetic bacteria could be “coupled” with a magnetic fluid system. The structure of the latest could be influ-enced and determined by means of external electromagnetic fields.
As a first experimental attempt, cultures of magnetic bacteria were treated with diluted mag-netic liquids. Studies on the survivability were performed for different magnetic particle con-centrations.
This is a work common developed by Jet Propulsion Laboratory and Californian Institute of Technology, Pasadena, together with the Institute of Space Science in Bucharest and the Institue of Complex Fluids Timisoara, under a ROSA grant.

Cuvinte cheie: magnetic gluids, magnetic bacteria, magnetotactic