Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …

Biohybrid microalgae robots: Design, fabrication, materials, and applications

F Zhang, Z Li, C Chen, H Luan, RH Fang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The integration of microorganisms and engineered artificial components has shown
considerable promise for creating biohybrid microrobots. The unique features of microalgae …

Physics of microswimmers—single particle motion and collective behavior: a review

J Elgeti, RG Winkler, G Gompper - Reports on progress in …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Locomotion and transport of microorganisms in fluids is an essential aspect of life. Search
for food, orientation toward light, spreading of off-spring, and the formation of colonies are …

Active particles in complex and crowded environments

C Bechinger, R Di Leonardo, H Löwen… - Reviews of modern …, 2016 - APS
Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled
Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy …

ESPResSo 4.0–an extensible software package for simulating soft matter systems

F Weik, R Weeber, K Szuttor, K Breitsprecher… - The European Physical …, 2019 - Springer
ESPResSo is an extensible simulation package for research on soft matter. This versatile
molecular dynamics program was originally developed for coarse-grained simulations of …

Swimming in complex fluids

SE Spagnolie, PT Underhill - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review the literature on swimming in complex fluids. A classification is proposed by
comparing the length-and timescales of a swimmer with those of nearby obstacles …

Fluid flows created by swimming bacteria drive self-organization in confined suspensions

E Lushi, H Wioland, RE Goldstein - … of the National Academy of Sciences, 2014 - pnas.org
Concentrated suspensions of swimming microorganisms and other forms of active matter
are known to display complex, self-organized spatiotemporal patterns on scales that are …

Confinement stabilizes a bacterial suspension into a spiral vortex

H Wioland, FG Woodhouse, J Dunkel, JO Kessler… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
Confining surfaces play crucial roles in dynamics, transport, and order in many physical
systems, but their effects on active matter, a broad class of dynamically self-organizing …

Microfluidics for sperm analysis and selection

R Nosrati, PJ Graham, B Zhang, J Riordon… - Nature Reviews …, 2017 - nature.com
Infertility is a growing global health issue with far-reaching socioeconomic implications. A
downward trend in male fertility highlights the acute need for affordable and accessible …

[KNJIGA][B] Algae: anatomy, biochemistry, and biotechnology

L Barsanti, P Gualtieri - 2022 - taylorfrancis.com
A single-source reference on the biology of algae, the third edition of Algae: Anatomy,
Biochemistry, and Biotechnology examines the most important taxa and structures for …