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 …

Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals

TH Tan, A Mietke, J Li, Y Chen, H Higinbotham… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Active crystals are highly ordered structures that emerge from the self-organization of motile
objects, and have been widely studied in synthetic, and bacterial, active matter. Whether …

Understanding the mechanobiology of early mammalian development through bioengineered models

S Vianello, MP Lutolf - Developmental cell, 2019 - cell.com
Research in developmental biology has been recently enriched by a multitude of in vitro
models recapitulating key milestones of mammalian embryogenesis. These models obviate …

[HTML][HTML] Symmetry breaking of infinite-dimensional dynamic system

W Hu, Z Wang, Y Zhao, Z Deng - Applied Mathematics Letters, 2020 - Elsevier
The relationship between the symmetry breaking and the energy dissipation of dynamic
systems is the foundation of the geometric mechanics, the investigation of which will …

Rapid sperm capture: high-throughput flagellar waveform analysis

MT Gallagher, G Cupples, EH Ooi… - Human …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
STUDY QUESTION Can flagellar analyses be scaled up to provide automated tracking of
motile sperm, and does knowledge of the flagellar waveform provide new insight not …

CiliaQ: a simple, open-source software for automated quantification of ciliary morphology and fluorescence in 2D, 3D, and 4D images

JN Hansen, S Rassmann, B Stüven… - The European Physical …, 2021 - Springer
Cilia are hair-like membrane protrusions that emanate from the surface of most vertebrate
cells and are classified into motile and primary cilia. Motile cilia move fluid flow or propel …

Cilia beating modulated radiating ternary nanofluids flow in a corrugated asymmetric channel with electromagnetohydrodynamic and momentum slip

N Saleem, S Munawar, D Tripathi, F Afzal… - Heat Transfer, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
A mathematical model is presented to study the cilia beating modulated radiated ternary
nanofluid flow between two cilia‐carpeted walls propagating with an applicable phase …

Reorganization of complex ciliary flows around regenerating Stentor coeruleus

KY Wan, SK Hürlimann, AM Fenix… - … of the Royal …, 2020 - royalsocietypublishing.org
The phenomenon of ciliary coordination has garnered increasing attention in recent
decades and multiple theories have been proposed to explain its occurrence in different …

Methods for suspensions of passive and active filaments

SF Schoeller, AK Townsend, TA Westwood… - Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Flexible filaments and fibres are essential components of important complex fluids that
appear in many biological and industrial settings. Direct simulations of these systems that …

Corrections to long wavelength approximation of peristalsis viscous fluid flow within a wavy channel

M Turkyilmazoglu - Chinese Journal of Physics, 2024 - Elsevier
This research paper delves into the pumping phenomenon of peristaltic motion within a
wavy, straight channel. Our aim is to provide analytical solutions for the well-established …