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Control and controllability of microswimmers by a shearing flow
Royal Society Open Science, 2021 With the continuing rapid development of artificial microrobots and active particles, questions of microswimmer guidance and control are becoming ever more relevant and prevalent. In both the applications and theoretical study of such microscale swimmers,
Clément Moreau +3 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, Volume 2, Issue 4, August 2026.Functional surfaces are investigated as a foundation for reconfigurable microscale systems with sensing and actuation capabilities. Advances in additive manufacturing enable our development of planar arrays of hybrid‐material, compliant microdevices that convert environmental stimuli into programmed motion and visual responses.
Sandra Edward +5 more
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Artificial microswimmers get smart
Science Robotics, 2021 Reinforcement learning enables microswimmers to navigate through noisy and unexplored real-world environments.
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Stirring by periodic arrays of microswimmers [PDF]
Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2016 The interaction between swimming micro-organisms or artificial self-propelled colloids and passive (tracer) particles in a fluid leads to enhanced diffusion of the tracers. This enhancement has attracted strong interest, as it could lead to new strategies to tackle the difficult problem of mixing on a microfluidic scale. Most of the theoretical work on
de Graaf, Joost, Stenhammar, Joakim
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eLife, 2017 The highly motile and versatile protozoan pathogen Trypanosoma brucei undergoes a complex life cycle in the tsetse fly. Here we introduce the host insect as an expedient model environment for microswimmer research, as it allows examination of microbial ...
Sarah Schuster +6 more
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Cteno‐Bot: An Untethered Metachronally Swimming Robot With Magnetoactive Propulsors
Advanced Intelligent Systems, Volume 8, Issue 8, August 2026.We present Cteno‐bot, an untethered ctenophore‐inspired robot which swims using metachronally coordinated appendages. A single mechanism controls up to 216 magnetoactive propulsors via a dynamically varying magnetic field. We show that the swimming speed of the robot can be increased without a corresponding increase in power requirement, simply by ...
David J. Peterman, Margaret L. Byron
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Microswimmer-Assisted Dual-Signal Sensor for Multiple Targets in Whole Blood
Accurate detection of biomarkers in whole blood is an important aspect of diagnostic testing but remains a challenge due to various interferences. However, using a self-calibrating two-signal strategy offers a solution that can overcome interference ...
Wenhao Ma (14935772) +7 more
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Adaptive locomotion of artificial microswimmers [PDF]
Science Advances, 2019 Artificial microswimmers display adaptive locomotion by autonomously morphing in response to physical changes in the environment.
Huang, Henwei +6 more
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Analytical response functions for a compressible thin fluid layer with odd viscosity
New Journal of PhysicsFluids composed of chiral active components can exhibit odd viscosity, a property that breaks time-reversal and parity symmetries. We investigate the hydrodynamic response to monopole and dipole singularities in a compressible thin fluid layer with odd ...
Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider +2 more
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Thrust and Hydrodynamic Efficiency of the Bundled Flagella
Micromachines, 2019 The motility mechanism of prokaryotic organisms has inspired many untethered microswimmers that could potentially perform minimally invasive medical procedures in stagnant fluid regions inside the human body.
Umit Danis +5 more
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