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Microswimmers near surfaces [PDF]
The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2016 Both, in their natural environment and in a controlled experimental setup, microswimmers regularly interact with surfaces. These surfaces provide a steric boundary, both for the swimming motion and the hydrodynamic flow pattern. These effects typically imply a strong accumulation of microswimmers near surfaces.
Elgeti, Jens, Gompper, Gerhard
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From 0D to 3D liquid crystal elastomers architectures: Fabrications and applications
Responsive Materials, EarlyView.This review presents a dimension‐oriented overview of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), highlighting their molecular alignment, fabrication strategies, and programmable deformations from 0D particles to 3D architectures. Emphasis is placed on how dimensionality guides design principles, enables diverse actuation modes, and bridges fundamental ...
Mingxuan Liu +8 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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Activatable smart contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging
Smart Molecules, EarlyView.This review highlights recent advances in smart activatable photoacoustic imaging (PAI) contrast agents, which dynamically modulate their optical properties in response to external stimuli or microenvironmental cues. It discusses their molecular design, activation mechanisms, biomedical applications, and future prospects for clinically tailored use ...
Donghyeon Oh +5 more
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Reconfigurable artificial microswimmers with internal feedback
Nature Communications, 2021 AbstractSelf-propelling microparticles are often proposed as synthetic models for biological microswimmers, yet they lack the internally regulated adaptation of their biological counterparts. Conversely, adaptation can be encoded in larger-scale soft-robotic devices but remains elusive to transfer to the colloidal scale.
L. Alvarez +6 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 20, 9 March 2026.Two‐photon lithography (TPL) enables 3D magnetic nanostructures with unmatched freedom in geometry and material choice. Advances in voxel control, deposition, and functionalization open pathways to artificial spin ices, racetracks, microrobots, and a number of additional technological applications.
Joseph Askey +5 more
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Emergence of odd elasticity in a microswimmer using deep reinforcement learning
Physical Review ResearchWe use the Deep Q-Network with reinforcement learning to investigate the emergence of odd elasticity in an elastic microswimmer model. For an elastic microswimmer, it is challenging to obtain the optimized dynamics due to the intricate elastohydrodynamic
Li-Shing Lin +3 more
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Acoustic actuation of bioinspired microswimmers [PDF]
Lab on a Chip, 2017 Acoustic actuation of bioinspired microswimmers is experimentally demonstrated.
Murat Kaynak +5 more
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Untethered Magnetic Microswimmers for Targeted Particle Transport and Flow Manipulation
Advanced Materials Technologies, Volume 11, Issue 6, 18 March 2026.This work introduces magnetically actuated microswimmers to dynamically reconfigure fluid flow within a single microfluidic device. Multiple homogeneous microswimmers are independently controlled by an external magnetic field to perform translational and rotational motions, thereby inducing real‐time flow manipulation.
Dineshkumar Loganathan +3 more
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Micromachines, 2017 It is technically difficult to acquire large-field images under the complexity and cost restrictions of a diagnostic and instant field research purpose.
Mohiuddin Khan Shourav, Jung Kyung Kim
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