Soft magnetic materials show great promise for biomedical applications, particularly in minimally invasive surgical devices. However, a key challenge is their vulnerability to imperfect control signals, such as external magnetic fields, within the complex in vivo environment of the human body.

This project aims to develop a soft magnetic material with tailored directional bending stiffness, restricting its function to only the desired dimensions. This will help overcome the issue of sensitivity to inaccurate magnetic fields, bringing us closer to practical applications of soft magnetic materials in biomedical settings.

By creating a soft magnetic material with improved control over its response to external fields, this project seeks to enhance the viability and reliability of using these materials in minimally invasive surgical devices and other in vivo biomedical applications.