Superhydrophobicity is a remarkable surface property found in nature and mimicked in
many engineering applications, including anti-wetting, anti-fogging, and anti-fouling …

Sperm motion near surfaces plays a crucial role in fertilization, but the nature of this motion
has not been resolved. Using total internal reflection fluorescence microscopy, we …

The fallopian tube is lined with a highly complex folded epithelium surrounding a lumen that
progressively narrows. To study the influence of this labyrinthine complexity on sperm …

Measuring forces from the piconewton to millinewton range is of great importance for the
study of living systems from a biophysical perspective. The use of flexible micropipettes as …

Flagella and cilia are cellular appendages that inherit essential functions of microbial life
including sensing and navigating the environment. In order to propel a swimming …

We present a generalisation of efficient numerical frameworks for modelling fluid–filament
interactions via the discretisation of a recently developed, non-local integral equation …

When a droplet is placed on a soft surface, surface tension deforms the substrate, creating a
capillary ridge. We study how the motion of the ridge dissipates energy in microscopic …

In this paper, we study the swimming of a model organism, the so-called Taylor's swimming
sheet, in a viscoelastic fluid close to a solid boundary. This situation comprises natural …

The fabrication of self-propelling micromotors and the study of their propulsion strategies
have gained attention due to their wide range of applications in the medical, engineering …

The undulatory swimming dynamics of the millimetric nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
was investigated in fluids with different viscosities. The technique of micropipette deflection …