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The transport of motile entities across modulated energy landscapes plays animportant role in a range of phenomena in biology, colloidal science andsolid-state physics. Here, an easily implementable strategy that allows for thecollective and monitored transport of microparticles at fluid-fluid interfacesis introduced. Adsorbed magnetic microparticles are carried on time-dependentmagnetic potentials, generated by a dynamic self-assembled lattice ofdifferent-sized magnetic particles. In such binary systems, the suddenreorientation of the applied field triggers the rapid exchange betweenattractive and repulsive configurations, enabling for the ballistic transfer ofthe carriers through the lattice. As the number of motile entities increases,the induced current increases, before reaching a maximum, while the loadedinterface gradually displays bidirectional transport. The described methodologycan be tuned through the applied field and exploited for the monitored guidanceof adsorbed molecules on liquid surfaces, the segregation of colloidalmixtures, the induced motion of defects in photonic crystals or the design ofnew self-assembled microrobots.

Collective Transport of Magnetic Microparticles at a Fluid Interface through Dynamic Self-Assembled Lattices