The dynamics of fluid-borne superparamagnetic bead transport by field-driven domain walls in submicrometer ferromagnetic tracks is studied experimentally together with numerical and analytical modeling. Experiments show that nanotrack-guided domain walls can propel individual trapped beads through an aqueous medium at speeds approaching 1000 μm/s, 10 to 100 times faster than through any previously demonstrated mechanism.
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