2 papers
cond-mat.soft2019
The 2019 Motile Active Matter Roadmap
Gerhard Gompper, Roland G. Winkler, Thomas Speck +34
Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This has stimulated the new field of active matter in recent years, which focuses on the physical…
physics.bio-ph2017
Human sperm steer with second harmonics of the flagellar beat
Guglielmo Saggiorato, Luis Alvarez, Jan F. Jikeli +3
Sperm are propelled by bending waves travelling along the flagellum. During steering in gradients of sensory cues, sperm adjust the flagellar beat waveform. Symmetric and asymmetri…