Magnetic cilia carpets with programmable metachronal waves [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 Synthetic hair-like structures (cilia) controlled by an external field have been developed, especially for microfluidic applications. Here, Gu et al. make soft artificial cilia carpets with programmable magnetization patterns and utilize them to achieve ...
Hongri Gu +12 more
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Numerical Study of Metachronal Wave‐Modulated Locomotion in Magnetic Cilia Carpets [PDF]
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Metachronal motions are ubiquitous in terrestrial and aquatic organisms and have attracted substantial attention in engineering for their potential applications.
Hao Jiang +3 more
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Novel analytical tools reveal that local synchronization of cilia coincides with tissue-scale metachronal waves in zebrafish multiciliated epithelia [PDF]
eLife, 2023 Motile cilia are hair-like cell extensions that beat periodically to generate fluid flow along various epithelial tissues within the body. In dense multiciliated carpets, cilia were shown to exhibit a remarkable coordination of their beat in the form of ...
Christa Ringers +7 more
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Metachronal waves in magnetic micro-robotic paddles for artificial cilia [PDF]
Communications Materials, 2021 Biological cilia are extremely effective for fluid flow, due to their beating motion creating metachronal waves. Here, metachronal waves are created in micro-robotic paddles that rotate in response to a magnetic field, creating fluid flow speeds of up to
Matthew T. Bryan +4 more
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Synchronous multi-segmental activity between metachronal waves controls locomotion speed in Drosophila larvae [PDF]
eLife, 2023 The ability to adjust the speed of locomotion is essential for survival. In limbed animals, the frequency of locomotion is modulated primarily by changing the duration of the stance phase.
Yingtao Liu +4 more
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A novel mathematical modeling with solution for movement of fluid through ciliary caused metachronal waves in a channel [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2021 In the present research, a novel mathematical model for the motion of cilia using non-linear rheological fluid in a symmetric channel is developed.
Wasim Ullah Khan +6 more
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Synchronization in cilia carpets: multiple metachronal waves are stable, but one wave dominates
New Journal of Physics, 2022 Carpets of actively bending cilia represent arrays of biological oscillators that can exhibit self-organized metachronal synchronization in the form of traveling waves of cilia phase.
Anton Solovev, Benjamin M Friedrich
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A multiscale biophysical model gives quantized metachronal waves in a lattice of beating cilia. [PDF]
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 2022 Significance Understanding the emergence and properties of metachronal waves (MWs) in ciliary arrays is a multiscale problem central to developmental biology, transport phenomena, and nonequilibrium physics, and with potential biomedical applications. For 1D lattices of cilia, we report key mechanisms that lead to the robust emergence of MWs.
Chakrabarti B, Fürthauer S, Shelley MJ.
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Spontaneous creation of macroscopic flow and metachronal waves in an array of cilia. [PDF]
Biophys J, 2007 Cells or bacteria carrying cilia on their surface show many striking features : alignment of cilia in an array, two-phase asymmetric beating for each cilium, coordination between cilia and existence of metachronal waves with a constant phase difference between two adjacent cilia.
Guirao B, Joanny JF.
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Emergence of metachronal waves in a chain of symmetrically beating filaments [PDF]
Physical Review ResearchRecent experiments show that metachronal waves (MCWs) can emerge from a chain of symmetrically beating nematodes aligned at the edge of sessile droplets.
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