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Spontaneous vortex formation by microswimmers with retarded attractions
Nature Communications, 2023 Time-delayed interactions involving perception, decision, and reaction, are omnipresent in the living world. Here, the delayed self-propulsion of a microswimmer toward a target gives rise to chiral orbital motion via a symmetry-breaking bifurcation ...
Xiangzun Wang +4 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won +5 more
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Dynamics of microswimmers near a soft penetrable interface
Physical Review Research, 2022 Few simulations exist for microswimmers near deformable interfaces. Here, we present numerical simulations of the hydrodynamic flows associated with a single microswimmer embedded in a binary fluid mixture. The two fluids demix, separated by a penetrable
Chao Feng +3 more
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Active Brownian motion in a narrow channel
, 2014 We review recent advances in rectification control of artificial microswimmers, also known as Janus particles, diffusing along narrow, periodically corrugated channels.
Ao, Xue +5 more
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Giant adsorption of microswimmers: duality of shape asymmetry and wall curvature [PDF]
, 2015 The effect of shape asymmetry of microswimmers on their adsorption capacity at confining channel walls is studied by a simple dumbbell model. For a shape polarity of a forward-swimming cone, like the stroke-averaged shape of a sperm, extremely long wall ...
Elgeti, Jens +2 more
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Thermometric Based‐Microswimmers with Chemical and Optical Engines
Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.Temperature sensing at small scales is typically performed using passive luminescent particles. Here, an alternative approach is demonstrated by integrating upconversion thermometry into self‐propelled microswimmers powered by chemical fuels or light. This strategy offers a step toward dynamic thermal sensing at the microscale, relevant to both lab‐on ...
João M. Gonçalves, Katherine Villa
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Topographical pathways guide chemical microswimmers [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 AbstractAchieving control over the directionality of active colloids is essential for their use in practical applications such as cargo carriers in microfluidic devices. So far, guidance of spherical Janus colloids was mainly realized using specially engineered magnetic multilayer coatings combined with external magnetic fields.
Juliane Simmchen +5 more
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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 Healthcare Materials, 2021 Image‐based screening of multicellular model organisms is critical for both investigating fundamental biology and drug development. Current microfluidic techniques for high‐throughput manipulation of small model organisms, although useful, are generally ...
Gongchen Sun +4 more
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