Velocity and Out-Step Frequencies for a Micro-Swimmer Based on Spiral Carbon Nanotubes [PDF]
Micromachines, 2023 The existing producing processes of micro spiral swimmers are complex. Here, a microswimmer with a magnetic layer on the surface of the spiral carbon nanotubes is proposed, which has a simple producing process.
Ce Zhang, Shiqi Ma, Lizhong Xu
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Magnetically Powered Biodegradable Microswimmers [PDF]
Micromachines, 2020 The propulsive efficiency and biodegradability of wireless microrobots play a significant role in facilitating promising biomedical applications. Mimicking biological matters is a promising way to improve the performance of microrobots.
Ho Cheung Michael Sun +4 more
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Magnetic microswimmers with infrared‐induced shape transformation
Micro & Nano Letters, 2021 Soft untethered microswimmers have recently been demonstrated to be capable of transporting and delivering cargos by external control while maintaining biocompatibility and safety.
Runhuai Yang +4 more
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Three-sphere swimmer in two dimensions at low Reynolds number condition [PDF]
مهندسی مکانیک شریف, 2022 Being widely ubiquitous in fluidic mediums from aquatic environments to bodies, for the sake of their mobility, microorganisms, such as bacteria and motile cells, make use of particular swimming strategies that are counter-intuitive to that of our daily ...
A. Sheikhshoaei, M. Rajabi
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Bioinspired enzyme-powered microswimmer for pH-sensitive locomotion in the gastric mucus
AIP Advances, 2023 Helicobacter pylori penetrates the gastric mucus by producing ammonia with urease, which locally raises the pH and turns the nearby gel into a solution. Here, we mimic this strategy by proposing an enzyme-powered microswimmer in the gastric mucus in one-
Elika Aghaei +4 more
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Interaction of the mechanosensitive microswimmer Paramecium with obstacles
Royal Society Open Science, 2023 In this work, we report investigations of the swimming behaviour of Paramecium tetraurelia, a unicellular microorganism, in micro-engineered pools that are decorated with thousands of cylindrical pillars.
Nicolas Escoubet +3 more
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Orientational dynamics and rheology of active suspensions in weakly viscoelastic flows
Communications Physics, 2023 Microswimmer suspensions in Newtonian fluids exhibit unusual macroscale properties, such as a superfluidic behavior, which can be harnessed to perform work at microscopic scales.
Akash Choudhary +2 more
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Preformation Characterization of a Torque-Driven Magnetic Microswimmer With Multi-Segment Structure
IEEE Access, 2021 Magnetically powered microswimmers exhibit various advantages in practical applications, including simplified propulsion mechanism of nonreciprocal motion in a low Reynolds (Re) number environment, high flexibility, and high efficiency.
Liuxi Xing +4 more
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How inertial lift affects the dynamics of a microswimmer in Poiseuille flow
Communications Physics, 2022 The investigation of microswimmer dynamics provides key insights in the design of active microfluidic systems and opens doors for further studies on inertial active matter.
Akash Choudhary +3 more
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Hydrodynamics can determine the optimal route for microswimmer navigation
Communications Physics, 2021 While control theory for optimal navigation is relevant across scales, from aeronautics to targeted drug delivery, the role of thermal fluctuations and hydrodynamic interactions with interfaces, walls and obstacles at the microscale remains an open ...
Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider +2 more
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