Precisely Navigated Biobot Swarms of Bacteria Magnetospirillum magneticum for Water Decontamination

SJ Song, CC Mayorga-Martinez… - … Applied Materials & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hybrid biological robots (biobots) prepared from living cells are at the forefront of micro-
/nanomotor research due to their biocompatibility and versatility toward multiple …

Magnetic control of magnetotactic bacteria swarms

M Birjukovs, K Bente, D Faivre, G Kitenbergs… - arxiv preprint arxiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) are of significant fundamental and practical interest, especially
for applications such as drug delivery and general-purpose object manipulators and …

Tuning up Maxwell's demon

H Linke, JMR Parrondo - Proceedings of the National Academy of …, 2021 - pnas.org
Within just a couple of decades, Maxwell's demon has gone from being one of the most
fundamental and intriguing Gedankenexperiments in physics—but one that appeared …

Multicellularity makes the difference: multicellular magnetotactic prokaryotes have dynamic motion parameters dependent on the magnetic field intensity

AL Carvalho, F Abreu… - The European Physical …, 2021 - epjplus.epj.org
Magnetotactic microorganisms can be found as unicellular entities, as coccus, vibrios,
spirilla, rods and protists as well as multicellular organisms. The most studied multicellular …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable self-assembly of magnetotactic bacteria: Role of hydrodynamics and magnetism

CJ Pierce, H Wijesinghe, E Osborne, E Mumper… - AIP Advances, 2020 - pubs.aip.org
Self-assembly is an important process in biological systems and also a promising avenue
toward dynamic and responsive micro-and nano-technologies. This study discusses the non …

Stochastic heat engines beyond a unique definition of temperature

CH Chang, CJ Chang, NJ Wu, Y Jun, CH Chang - Physical Review Research, 2023 - APS
When Carnot and Stirling initially conceptualized heat engines, temperature unambiguously
represented our everyday perception of cold and hot. However, as this energy scale is …

Colloquium: Magnetotactic bacteria: From flagellar motor to collective effects

M Marmol, E Gachon, D Faivre - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2024 - APS
Magnetotactic bacteria are swimming microorganisms able to follow magnetic field lines with
the help of an organelle called the magnetosome that is made of biomineralized magnetic …

Experimental determination of the propulsion matrix of the body of helical Magnetospirillum magneticum cells

L Yu, L Le Nagard, S Barkley, L Smith, C Fradin - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
Helical-shaped magnetotactic bacteria provide a rare opportunity to precisely measure both
the translational and rotational friction coefficients of micron-sized chiral particles. The …

Controlling multiple heterogenous magnetic bacteria at a solid-liquid interface using uniform magnetic fields

WMHS Wijesinghe - US Patent App. 17/667,058, 2022 - Google Patents
Flagellated magnetotactic bacteria (MTB), specifically AMB-1 bacteria, are provided as a
system of microrobots, and the heterogeneity of their hydrodynamic interactions with a solid …