Soft Bio‐Microrobots: Toward Biomedical Applications
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 6, Issue 2, February 2024.Soft bio‐microrobots are created with designs inspired by living creatures or utilizing motile microorganisms or cells. Their compliant and flexible bodies enable them to adapt to intricate environments. This review presents a summary of the design principles, energy sources, and biomedical applications of soft bio‐microrobots. The challenges that must
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Symplectic and antiplectic waves in an array of beating cilia attached to a closed body [PDF]
Phys. Rev. E 95, 052412 (2017), 2016 By taking into account the hydrodynamic interactions in a one dimensional array of model cilia attached to a no-slip cylinderical surface, we investigate their synchronized motion. We show, how does the emergence of metachronal waves depend on the initial state of the system and investigate the conditions under which, the formation of symplectic and ...
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Collective synchronization states in arrays of driven colloidal oscillators
New Journal of Physics, 2012 The phenomenon of metachronal waves in cilia carpets has been well known for decades; these waves are widespread in biology, and have fundamental physiological importance.
Romain Lhermerout +4 more
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Hydrodynamic synchronisation of non-linear oscillators at low Reynolds number
, 2012 We introduce a generic model of weakly non-linear self-sustained oscillator as a simplified tool to study synchronisation in a fluid at low Reynolds number. By averaging over the fast degrees of freedom, we examine the effect of hydrodynamic interactions
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Transport and mixing by metachronal waves in nonreciprocal soft robotic pneumatic artificial cilia at low Reynolds numbers [PDF]
, 2021 Rongjing Zhang +2 more
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Hydrodynamic flow patterns and synchronization of beating cilia
, 2006 We calculate the hydrodynamic flow field generated far from a cilium which is attached to a surface and beats periodically. In the case of two beating cilia, hydrodynamic interactions can lead to synchronization of the cilia, which are nonlinear ...
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Respiratory Cilia as a Therapeutic Target of Phosphodiesterase Inhibitors
Frontiers in Pharmacology, 2020 Mucociliary clearance is an essential airway defense mechanism dependent predominantly on the proper ciliary function and mucus rheology. The crucial role of cilia is evident in `a variety of respiratory diseases, as the ciliary dysfunction is associated
Marta Joskova, Juraj Mokry, Sona Franova
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Functional imaging of mucociliary phenomena: High-speed digital reflection contrast microscopy [PDF]
, 2018 We present a technique for the investigation of mucociliary phenomena on trachea explants under conditions resembling those in the respiratory tract. Using an enhanced reflection contrast, we detect simultaneously the wave-like modulation of the mucus ...
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Adomian decomposition solution for propulsion of dissipative magnetic Jeffrey biofluid in a ciliated channel containing a porous medium with forced convection heat transfer [PDF]
, 2018 Physiological transport phenomena often feature ciliated internal walls. Heat, momentum and multi-species mass transfer may arise and additionally non-Newtonian biofluid characteristics are common in smaller vessels.
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Fractional generalized Burgers’ fluid flow due to metachronal waves of cilia in an inclined tube
Advances in Mechanical Engineering, 2017 In this study, the cilia-induced flow is discussed for fractional generalized Burgers’ fluid in an inclined tube. The mathematical model of fractional generalized Burgers’ fluid flow is obtained under the long-wavelength approximation.
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