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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 ...
Volpe, G. +3 more
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Nanoerythrosome-functionalized biohybrid microswimmers
APL Bioengineering, 2020 Biohybrid microswimmers, which are realized through the integration of motile microscopic organisms with artificial cargo carriers, have a significant potential to revolutionize autonomous targeted cargo delivery applications in medicine.
Nicole Buss +4 more
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Suppression of bacterial rheotaxis in wavy channels
Physical Review Research, 2022 Controlling the swimming behavior of bacteria is crucial, for example, to prevent contamination of ducts and catheters. We show that bacteria modeled by deformable microswimmers can accumulate in flows through straight microchannels either in their ...
Winfried Schmidt +2 more
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Active percolation in pusher-type microswimmers
, 2022 The aggregation of microorganisms in colonies and biofilms underpins a myriad of biological processes, and has crucial implications in ecology and biomedical sciences.
Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl (11552473) +1 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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, 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 (11157522) +5 more
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Theoretical framework for two-microswimmer hydrodynamic interactions
New Journal of Physics, 2021 Hydrodynamic interactions are crucial for determining the cooperative behavior of microswimmers at low Reynolds numbers. Here we provide a comprehensive analysis of the scaling laws and the strength of the interactions in the case of a pair of three ...
Sebastian Ziegler +4 more
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A Path toward Inherently Asymmetric Micromotors
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 Since the highly cited paper by Purcell postulating the “Scallop theorem” almost 50 years ago, asymmetry is an unavoidable part of micromotors. It is frequently induced by self‐shadowing or self‐masking, resulting in so‐called Janus colloids.
Purnesh Chattopadhyay +3 more
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Rapid fabrication of reconfigurable helical microswimmers with environmentally adaptive locomotion
Light: Advanced ManufacturingArtificial helical microswimmers with shape-morphing capacities and adaptive locomotion have great potential for precision medicine and noninvasive surgery.
Rui Li +11 more
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Microbial Adhesion on Circular Obstacles: An Optimization Study
Frontiers in Physics, 2022 Microbial filtration is an important process with applications in environmental, mining, and sanitary engineering. Here, we study the interplay between the motility of microswimmers and the imposed flow to determine the adhesion of bacteria at the ...
Tamara Faúndez +3 more
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