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Royal Society Open Science, 2021 Active goal-directed motion requires real-time adjustment of control signals depending on the system’s status, also known as control. The amount of information that needs to be processed depends on the desired motion and control, and on the system’s ...
Julia M. Riede +3 more
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Corner accumulation behavior of spermatozoa in microchannels [PDF]
, 2014 This paper was presented at the 4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2014), which was held at University College, London, UK. The conference was organised by Brunel University and supported by the Italian Union of Thermofluiddynamics, IPEM, the ...
4th Micro and Nano Flows Conference (MNF2014) +3 more
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Destabilization of a flow focused suspension of magnetotactic bacteria
, 2016 Active matter is a new class of material, intrinsically out-of equilibrium with intriguing properties. So far, the recent upsurge of studies has mostly focused on the spontaneous behavior of these systems --in the absence of external constraints or ...
Bocquet, Lyderic +4 more
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Swimming Characteristics of Bioinspired Helical Microswimmers Based on Soft Lotus-Root Fibers
Micromachines, 2017 Various kinds of helical swimmers inspired by E. coli bacteria have been developed continually in many types of researches, but most of them are proposed by the rigid bodies.
Jia Liu +5 more
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Magnetic microswimmers with infrared‐induced shape transformation
Micro & Nano Letters, 2021 Soft untethered microswimmers have recently been demonstrated to be capable of transporting and delivering cargos by external control while maintaining biocompatibility and safety.
Runhuai Yang +4 more
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A Review on the Motion of Magnetically Actuated Bio-Inspired Microrobots
Applied Sciences, 2022 Nature consists of numerous solutions to overcome challenges in designing artificial systems. Various actuation mechanisms have been implemented in microrobots to mimic the motion of microorganisms. Such bio-inspired designs have contributed immensely to
Shanuka Dodampegama +8 more
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Stationary shapes of deformable particles moving at low Reynolds numbers
, 2015 Lecture Notes of the Summer School ``Microswimmers -- From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behaviour'', organised by the DFG Priority Programme SPP 1726 (Forschungszentrum J{\"{u}}lich, 2015).Comment: Pages C7.1-16 of G. Gompper et al.
A. Mietke +27 more
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From 0D to 3D liquid crystal elastomers architectures: Fabrications and applications
Responsive Materials, EarlyView.This review presents a dimension‐oriented overview of liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), highlighting their molecular alignment, fabrication strategies, and programmable deformations from 0D particles to 3D architectures. Emphasis is placed on how dimensionality guides design principles, enables diverse actuation modes, and bridges fundamental ...
Mingxuan Liu +8 more
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Run-and-Tumble Dynamics of Self-Propelled Particles in Confinement
, 2015 Run-and-tumble dynamics is a wide-spread mechanism of swimming bacteria. The accumulation of run-and-tumble microswimmers near impermeable surfaces is studied theoretically and numerically in the low-density limit in two and three spatial dimensions ...
Elgeti, Jens, Gompper, Gerhard
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Activatable smart contrast agents for photoacoustic imaging
Smart Molecules, EarlyView.This review highlights recent advances in smart activatable photoacoustic imaging (PAI) contrast agents, which dynamically modulate their optical properties in response to external stimuli or microenvironmental cues. It discusses their molecular design, activation mechanisms, biomedical applications, and future prospects for clinically tailored use ...
Donghyeon Oh +5 more
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