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cond-mat.soft2024
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems
Gabriel Aguayo, Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Hugo N. Ulloa +2
Communities of swimming microorganisms often thrive near liquid-air interfaces. We study how such `active carpets' shape their aquatic environment by driving biogenic transport in…
cond-mat.soft2024
Tuning upstream swimming of micro-robots by shape and cargo size
Abdallah Daddi-Moussa-Ider, Maciej Lisicki, Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen
The navigation of micro-robots in complex flow environments is controlled by rheotaxis, the reorientation with respect to flow gradients. Here we demonstrate how payloads can be ex…