3D printing of functional microrobots

J Li, M Pumera - Chemical Society Reviews, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
3D printing (also called “additive manufacturing” or “rapid prototyping”) is able to translate
computer-aided and designed virtual 3D models into 3D tangible constructs/objects through …

Colloidal motors 101: a beginner's guide to colloidal motor research

X Chen, C Zhou, W Wang - Chemistry–An Asian Journal, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The research progress in colloidal motors, synthetic colloids that convert environmental
energy and swim in water, has attracted much attention in recent years. Yet, its rapid …

Reconfigurable microbots folded from simple colloidal chains

T Yang, B Sprinkle, Y Guo, J Qian… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
To overcome the reversible nature of low-Reynolds-number flow, a variety of biomimetic
microrobotic propulsion schemes and devices capable of rapid transport have been …

[图书][B] Microhydrodynamics, Brownian motion, and complex fluids

MD Graham - 2018 - books.google.com
This is an introduction to the dynamics of fluids at small scales, the physical and
mathematical underpinnings of Brownian motion, and the application of these subjects to the …

A simple catch: Fluctuations enable hydrodynamic trapping of microrollers by obstacles

EB van der Wee, BC Blackwell, F Balboa Usabiaga… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
It is known that obstacles can hydrodynamically trap bacteria and synthetic microswimmers
in orbits, where the trapping time heavily depends on the swimmer flow field and noise is …

Leveraging collective effects in externally driven colloidal suspensions: Experiments and simulations

M Driscoll, B Delmotte - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
In this review article, we focus on collective motion in externally driven colloidal
suspensions, as well as how these collective effects can be harnessed for use in microfluidic …

Polar state reversal in active fluids

B Zhang, H Yuan, A Sokolov, MO de la Cruz… - Nature Physics, 2022 - nature.com
Spontaneous emergence of correlated states such as flocks and vortices is a prime example
of collective dynamics and self-organization observed in active matter,,,,–. In geometrically …

[HTML][HTML] Large scale Brownian dynamics of confined suspensions of rigid particles

B Sprinkle, F Balboa Usabiaga, NA Patankar… - The Journal of chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce methods for large-scale Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulation of many rigid
particles of arbitrary shape suspended in a fluctuating fluid. Our method adds Brownian …

Driven dynamics in dense suspensions of microrollers

B Sprinkle, EB Van Der Wee, Y Luo, MM Driscoll… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform detailed computational and experimental measurements of the driven dynamics
of a dense, uniform suspension of sedimented microrollers driven by a magnetic field …

Conformations and diffusion of flexibly linked colloidal chains

RW Verweij, PG Moerman, LPP Huijnen… - Journal of Physics …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
For biologically relevant macromolecules such as intrinsically disordered proteins, internal
degrees of freedom that allow for shape changes have a large influence on both the motion …