Developments in medical device design result in advances in wearable technologies,
minimally invasive surgical techniques, and patient-specific approaches to medicine. In this …

This paper provides an updated review of recent advances in microfluidics applied to
artificial and biohybrid microswimmers. Sharing the common regime of low Reynolds …

This article provides a review of the recent development of biomimicking behaviors in active
colloids. While the behavior of biological microswimmers is undoubtedly influenced by …

Thermo-responsive hydrogels are a promising material for creating controllable actuators for
use in micro-scale devices, since they expand and contract significantly (absorbing or …

The dynamics of geometrically nonlinear flexible filaments play an important role in a host of
biological processes, from flagella-driven cell transport to the polymeric structure of complex …

Phoretic colloids self-propel thanks to surface flows generated in response to surface
gradients (thermal, electrical, or chemical), that are self-induced and/or generated by other …

Artificial microswimmers, or 'microbots', have the potential to revolutionise non-invasive
medicine and microfluidics. Microbots that are powered by self-phoretic mechanisms, such …

Hydrogels have received increased attention due to their biocompatible material properties,
adjustable porosity, ease of functionalization, tuneable shape, and Young's moduli. Initial …

Autophoretic microswimmers self-propel via surface interactions with a surrounding solute
fuel. Chemically-active filaments are an exciting new microswimmer design that augments …

Since their development in 2001, regularized stokeslets have become a popular numerical
tool for low-Reynolds-number flows since the replacement of a point force by a smoothed …