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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 ...
Ebru Demir, Yang Ding, On Shun Pak
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Micromachines, 2022 The small size of robotic microswimmers makes them suitable for performing biomedical tasks in tiny, enclosed spaces. Considering the effects of potentially long-term retention of microswimmers in biological tissues and the environment, the degradability
U Kei Cheang, Liang Guo, Xiaoxia Song
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Improving Swimming Performance of Photolithography-Based Microswimmers Using Curvature Structures
Micromachines, 2022 The emergence of robotic microswimmers and their huge potential in biomedical applications such as drug delivery, non-invasive surgery, and bio-sensing facilitates studies to improve their effectiveness.
Liyuan Tan +4 more
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Challenges and attempts to make intelligent microswimmers [PDF]
Frontiers in Physics, 2023 The study of microswimmers’ behavior, including their self-propulsion, interactions with the environment, and collective phenomena, has received significant attention over the past few decades due to its importance for various biological and medical ...
Chaojie Mo +3 more
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Microswimmers in an axisymmetric vortex flow
New Journal of Physics, 2020 Microswimmers are encountered in a wide variety of biophysical settings. When interacting with flow fields, they show interesting dynamical features such as hydrodynamic trapping, clustering, and preferential orientation.
José-Agustín Arguedas-Leiva +1 more
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Independent Control and Path Planning of Microswimmers With a Uniform Magnetic Field
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2022 Artificial bacteria flagella (ABFs) are magnetic helical microswimmers that can be remotely controlled via a uniform, rotating magnetic field. Previous studies have used the heterogeneous response of microswimmers to external magnetic fields for ...
Petros Koumoutsakos, Lucas Amoudruz
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2023 Ultraviolet lithography is a very promising technology used for the batch fabrication of biomedical microswimmers. However, creating microswimmers that can swim at low Reynolds number using biocompatible materials while retaining strong magnetic ...
Junfeng Xiong +8 more
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Scientific Reports, 2021 Magnetic achiral planar microswimmers can be massively fabricated at low cost and are envisioned to be useful for in vivo biomedical applications. To understand locomotion in representative in vivo environments, we investigated the swimming performance ...
Zhi Chen +6 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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Learning to cooperate for low-Reynolds-number swimming: a model problem for gait coordination
Scientific Reports, 2023 Biological microswimmers can coordinate their motions to exploit their fluid environment—and each other—to achieve global advantages in their locomotory performance.
Yangzhe Liu +3 more
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