Microscopic artificial cilia–a review

T ul Islam, Y Wang, I Aggarwal, Z Cui, HE Amirabadi… - Lab on a Chip, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
Cilia are microscopic hair-like external cell organelles that are ubiquitously present in
nature, also within the human body. They fulfill crucial biological functions: motile cilia …

Microfluidic applications of artificial cilia: recent progress, demonstration, and future perspectives

V Sahadevan, B Panigrahi, CY Chen - Micromachines, 2022 - mdpi.com
Artificial cilia-based microfluidics is a promising alternative in lab-on-a-chip applications
which provides an efficient way to manipulate fluid flow in a microfluidic environment with …

Tailoring flexible arrays for artificial cilia actuators

X Zhang, J Guo, X Fu, D Zhang… - Advanced Intelligent …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Artificial cilia actuators are described as responsive and actuatable cilia‐structured arrays
that are mainly made of flexible polymers. Over the past few decades, researchers have …

Transport and mixing by metachronal waves in nonreciprocal soft robotic pneumatic artificial cilia at low Reynolds numbers

R Zhang, J den Toonder, PR Onck - Physics of Fluids, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
Cilia are widely employed by living systems to manipulate fluid flow in various functions,
such as feeding, pum**, and locomotion. Mimicking the intricate ciliary asymmetry in …

Advances in magnetic tweezers for single molecule and cell biophysics

D Kilinc, GU Lee - Integrative Biology, 2014 - academic.oup.com
Magnetic tweezers (MTW) enable highly accurate forces to be transduced to molecules to
study mechanotransduction at the molecular or cellular level. We review recent MTW studies …

Bio‐nano‐magnetic materials for localized mechanochemical stimulation of cell growth and death

D Kilinc, CL Dennis, GU Lee - Advanced materials, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Magnetic nanoparticles are promising new tools for therapeutic applications, such as
magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia therapy and targeted drug delivery. Recent in vitro …

Bio-inspired micro-and nanorobotics driven by magnetic field

AV Chesnitskiy, AE Gayduk, VA Seleznev, VY Prinz - Materials, 2022 - mdpi.com
In recent years, there has been explosive growth in the number of investigations devoted to
the development and study of biomimetic micro-and nanorobots. The present review is …

Organic bioelectronic tools for biomedical applications

S Löffler, B Libberton, A Richter-Dahlfors - Electronics, 2015 - mdpi.com
Organic bioelectronics forms the basis of conductive polymer tools with great potential for
application in biomedical science and medicine. It is a rapidly growing field of both …

A magnetoresistive tactile sensor for harsh environment applications

A Alfadhel, MA Khan, S Cardoso, D Leitao, J Kosel - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
A magnetoresistive tactile sensor is reported, which is capable of working in high
temperatures up to 140° C. Hair-like bioinspired structures, known as cilia, made out of …

Crystallographically driven magnetic behaviour of arrays of monocrystalline Co nanowires

YP Ivanov, DG Trabada, A Chuvilin, J Kosel… - …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Cobalt nanowires, 40 nm in diameter and several micrometers long, have been grown by
controlled electrodeposition into ordered anodic alumina templates. The hcp crystal …