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Thermally Driven Two-Sphere Microswimmer with Internal Feedback Control [PDF]
We investigate the locomotion of a thermally driven elastic two-sphere microswimmer with internal feedback control that is realized by the position-dependent friction coefficients.
He, L. +6 more
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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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Roads to Smart Artificial Microswimmers
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2020 Artificial microswimmers offer exciting opportunities for biomedical applications. The goal of these synthetics is to swim like natural micro‐organisms through biological environments and perform complex tasks such as drug delivery and microsurgery. Extensive efforts in the past several decades have focused on generating propulsion at the microscopic ...
Alan Cheng Hou Tsang +3 more
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Engineering passive swimmers by shaking liquids
New Journal of Physics, 2019 The locomotion and design of microswimmers are topical issues of current fundamental and applied research. In addition to numerous living and artificial active microswimmers, a passive microswimmer was identified only recently: a soft, Λ-shaped, non ...
M Laumann +3 more
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Nature Communications, 2022 Biological microswimmers such as bacteria show collective motion that is made possible by an intricate interplay of sensing and signaling. Ketzetzi et al. reproduce this phenomenon in a catalytic system undergoing, for instance, cooperative speed-ups and
Stefania Ketzetzi +4 more
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Coarse Graining Nonisothermal Microswimmer Suspensions
Frontiers in Physics, 2021 We investigate coarse-grained models of suspended self-thermophoretic microswimmers. Upon heating, the Janus spheres, with hemispheres made of different materials, induce a heterogeneous local solvent temperature that causes the self-phoretic particle ...
Sven Auschra +4 more
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A Magnetic‐Driven Self‐Rotation‐Stabilized Miniature Swimming Robot
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Inspired by the stable rotational descent of seeds in nature, this study designs a magnetic‐driven self‐rotation‐stabilized miniature swimming robot (MSMSR). Based on a resonance‐driven strategy, the robot exhibits high swimming performance, offering enhanced directional swimming and improved resistance to water flow disturbances compared to existing ...
Fujun Wang +4 more
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Flagellar dynamics of chains of active Janus particles fueled by an AC electric field
New Journal of Physics, 2018 We study the active dynamics of self-propelled asymmetrical colloidal particles (Janus particles) fueled by an AC electric field. Both the speed and direction of the self-propulsion, and the strength of the attractive interaction between particles can be
Daiki Nishiguchi +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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Recent Advances in Microswimmers for Biomedical Applications
Micromachines, 2020 Microswimmers are a rapidly developing research area attracting enormous attention because of their many potential applications with high societal value.
Ada-Ioana Bunea, Rafael Taboryski
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