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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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Photogyrotactic Concentration of a Population of Swimming Microalgae Across a Porous Layer
Frontiers in Physics, 2021 The light environment controls the swimming of microalgae through a light-seeking and avoiding behaviour, which is known as phototaxis. In this work, we exploit phototaxis to control the migration and concentration of populations of the soil microalga ...
Praneet Prakash, Ottavio A. Croze
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Microtransformers: controlled microscale navigation with flexible robots [PDF]
, 2018 Artificial microswimmers are a new technology with promising microfluidics and biomedical applications, such as directed cargo transport, microscale assembly, and targeted drug delivery. A fundamental barrier to realising this potential is the ability to
Montenegro-Johnson, Thomas D.
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Energies, 2022 Nano/microrobots (NMRs) are tiny devices that can convert energy into motion and operate at nano/microscales.54 Especially in biomedical research, NMRs have received much attention over the past twenty years because of their excellent capabilities and ...
Lukáš Děkanovský +4 more
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Angewandte Chemie, EarlyView.Current interest in artificial cell research underscores its potential to deepen our understanding of life's fundamental processes. This review highlights advances in bottom‐up coacervate‐based artificial cell engineering via combined integration of cellular hallmarks.
Arjan Hazegh Nikroo +3 more
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Dynamics of a linear magnetic "microswimmer molecule"
, 2015 In analogy to nanoscopic molecules that are composed of individual atoms, we consider an active "microswimmer molecule". It is built up from three individual magnetic colloidal microswimmers that are connected by harmonic springs and hydrodynamically ...
Babel, Sonja +2 more
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On the General Analytical Solution of the Kinematic Cosserat Equations [PDF]
, 2016 Based on a Lie symmetry analysis, we construct a closed form solution to the kinematic part of the (partial differential) Cosserat equations describing the mechanical behavior of elastic rods.
D Michels +22 more
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Magnetocapillary self-assemblies: locomotion and micromanipulation along a liquid interface [PDF]
, 2017 This paper presents an overview and discussion of magnetocapillary self-assemblies. New results are presented, in particular concerning the possible development of future applications.
Grosjean, Galien +2 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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Optimal navigation of microswimmers in complex and noisy environments
New Journal of Physics, 2022 We design new navigation strategies for travel time optimization of microscopic self-propelled particles in complex and noisy environments. In contrast to strategies relying on the results of optimal control theory or machine learning approaches ...
Lorenzo Piro +2 more
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