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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]
Soft Matter, 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 ...
Volpe, G., Mijalkov, M.
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Microswimmers in patterned environments [PDF]
Soft Matter, 2011 Tiny self-propelled swimmers capable of autonomous navigation through complex environments provide appealing opportunities for localization, pick-up and delivery of microscopic and nanoscopic objects.
Volpe, G. +15 more
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The European Physical Journal Special Topics, 2016 Hot microswimmers are self-propelled Brownian particles that exploit local heating for their directed self-thermophoretic motion. We provide a pedagogical overview of the key physical mechanisms underlying this promising new technology.
Klaus Kroy +2 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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Hydrodynamic Choreographies of Microswimmers [PDF]
Scientific Reports, 2018 We unveil orbital topologies of two nearby swimming microorganisms using an artificial microswimmer, called Quadroar. Depending on the initial conditions of the microswimmers, we find diverse families of attractors including dynamical equilibria, bound ...
Mehdi Mirzakhanloo +5 more
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Artificial microswimmers get smart
Science Robotics, 2021 Reinforcement learning enables microswimmers to navigate through noisy and unexplored real-world environments.Reinforcement learning enables microswimmers to navigate through noisy and unexplored real-world environments.Reinforcement learning enables ...
Stark, Holger
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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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Photogravitactic Microswimmers [PDF]
Advanced Functional Materials, 2018 Phototactic microorganisms are commonly observed to respond to natural sunlight by swimming upward against gravity. This study demonstrates that synthetic photochemically active microswimmers can also swim against gravity.
Dhruv P. Singh +15 more
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