Magnetotactic bacteria in a droplet self-assemble into a rotary motor

B Vincenti, G Ramos, ML Cordero, C Douarche… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
From intracellular protein trafficking to large-scale motion of animal groups, the physical
concepts driving the self-organization of living systems are still largely unraveled. Self …

Chirotactic response of microswimmers in fluids with odd viscosity

Y Hosaka, M Chatzittofi, R Golestanian, A Vilfan - Physical Review Research, 2024 - APS
Odd viscosity is a property of chiral active fluids with broken time-reversal and parity
symmetries. We show that the flow of such a fluid around a rotating axisymmetric body is …

Numerical study of magnetized Powell–Eyring hybrid nanomaterial flow with variable heat transfer in the presence of artificial bacteria: Applications for tumor removal …

TQ Tang, M Rooman, Z Shah, S Khan… - Frontiers in …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
This investigation determined the effectiveness of an exterior magnetic field on bacteria
enclosed by thousands of magnetite nanoparticles. Variable thermal conductivity and Joule …

Swimming bacteria in Poiseuille flow: The quest for active Bretherton-Jeffery trajectories

G Junot, N Figueroa-Morales, T Darnige… - Europhysics …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Using a 3D Lagrangian tracking technique, we determine experimentally the trajectories of
non-tumbling E. coli mutants swimming in a Poiseuille flow. We identify a typology of …

How do artificial bacteria behave in magnetized nanofluid with variable thermal conductivity: application of tumor reduction and cancer cells destruction

NS Elgazery, AF Elelamy, E Bobescu… - International Journal of …, 2022 - emerald.com
Purpose The study aims to determine an efficiency of external magnetic field on the bacteria
surrounded by thousands of magnetic magnetite nanoparticles. The interstitial nanoliquid in …

On Nanomachines and Their Future Perspectives in Biomedicine

MA Ramos Docampo - Advanced Biology, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Nano/micromotors are a class of active matter that can self‐propel converting different types
of input energy into kinetic energy. The huge efforts that are made in this field over the last …

Computation analysis of unsteady second grade biomagnetic micropolar blood base nanofluid flow with motile gyrotactic microorganisms

T Zaman, Z Shah, M Rooman, W Khan… - International Journal of …, 2024 - Taylor & Francis
The primary aim of this research is to investigate the impact of an external magnetic field on
bacteria that are surrounded by a large quantity of magnetite nanoparticles. The study …

Magnetic microswimmers exhibit Bose-Einstein-like condensation

F Meng, D Matsunaga, B Mahault, R Golestanian - Physical Review Letters, 2021 - APS
We study an active matter system comprised of magnetic microswimmers confined in a
microfluidic channel and show that it exhibits a new type of self-organized behavior …

[HTML][HTML] Active string fluids and gels formed by dipolar active Brownian particles in 3D

M Kelidou, M Fazelzadeh, B Parage… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Self-propelled particles possessing permanent magnetic dipole moments occur naturally in
magnetotactic bacteria and can be built into man-made systems such as active colloids or …

Impact of pusher and puller bacterial suspensions on enhanced convective drug delivery into porous tissue

F Yaghoubian, F Ghalichi, H Niroomand-Oscuii - Physics of Fluids, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Modern medicine heavily relies on drug delivery systems to ensure targeted and effective
administration of therapeutic agents. One such promising innovation is the development of …