Magnetic levitation system

US12427532B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• President and Fellows of Harvard College · US

Inventors

• Christoffer Karl Abrahamsson · Cambridge, US
• Amit A. Nagarkar · Cambridge, US
• Michael Fink · Jerusalem, IL
• Markus P. Nemitz · Cambridge, US
• Daniel Preston · Elmont, US
• Shencheng Ge · Pasadena, US
• Joseph Bozenko · Cambridge, US
• George M. Whitesides · Newton, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Mar 16, 2020
• Grant date: Sep 30, 2025
• Expiry date: Dec 9, 2041

Classification

• Technology area (CPC B): Performing Operations; Transporting
• CPC primary: B03C2201/26
• WIPO field: Measurement
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

A magnetic levitation system is described, including a first and second magnets having surfaces of their like-poles facing each other; and a container disposed between the first and second magnets' like poles and containing a solution including a paramagnetic complex in a non-aqueous solvent, where the paramagnetic complex includes a paramagnetic metal and at least one ligand that coordinates to the paramagnetic metal via electron donation. Methods of separating a mixture of solid compounds, and/or identifying, confirming, and/or predicting the composition of the mixture, are also described.