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Towards an analytical description of active microswimmers in clean and in surfactant-covered drops [PDF]
, 2020 Geometric confinements are frequently encountered in the biological world and strongly affect the stability, topology, and transport properties of active suspensions in viscous flow.
Ardekani, Arezoo M. +8 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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Gait switching and targeted navigation of microswimmers via deep reinforcement learning
Communications Physics, 2022 Biomedical applications of artificial microswimmers rely on efficient navigation strategies within complex and unpredictable fluid environments. Here, the authors use artificial intelligence to model and design microswimmers that are capable of self ...
Zonghao Zou +4 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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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 ...
Alan C. H. Tsang +3 more
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Sorting of Chiral Microswimmers [PDF]
, 2013 Microscopic swimmers, e.g., chemotactic bacteria and cells, are capable of directed motion by exerting a force on their environment. For asymmetric microswimmers, e.g., bacteria, spermatozoa and many artificial active colloidal particles, a torque is ...
Mijalkov, Mite, Volpe, Giovanni
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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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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 ...
Lucas Amoudruz, Petros Koumoutsakos
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Tuning the motility and directionality of self-propelled colloids [PDF]
, 2017 Microorganisms are able to overcome the thermal randomness of their surroundings by harvesting energy to navigate in viscous fluid environments. In a similar manner, synthetic colloidal microswimmers are capable of mimicking complex biolocomotion by ...
Bechinger, Clemens +5 more
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Oscillatory rheotaxis of artificial swimmers in microchannels
Nature Communications, 2022 Biological and artificial microswimmers often navigate channels under external flow, where in many biomicroswimmers the active upstream motion is oscillatory. Here the authors demonstrate that regular, controllable, and reproducible oscillatory rheotaxis
Ranabir Dey +4 more
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