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20142018
most citedEnhanced active swimming in viscoelastic fluids

96 citations · 177 across the 4 of their papers we have counts for

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5 papers

physics.bio-ph2018

Swimming of peritrichous bacteria is enabled by an elastohydrodynamic instability

Emily E. Riley, Debasish Das, Eric Lauga

Peritrichously-flagellated bacteria, such as Escherichia coli, self-propel in fluids by using specialised motors to rotate multiple helical filaments. The rotation of each motor is…

physics.bio-ph2017★ 34 cited

An empirical resistive-force theory for slender biological filaments in shear-thinning fluids

Emily E. Riley, Eric Lauga

Many cells exploit the bending or rotation of flagellar filaments in order to self-propel in viscous fluids. While appropriate theoretical modelling is available to capture flagell…

physics.bio-ph2015

Small-amplitude swimmers can self-propel faster in viscoelastic fluids

Emily E. Riley, Eric Lauga

Many small organisms self-propel in viscous fluids using travelling wave-like deformation of their bodies or appendages. Examples include small nematodes moving through soil using…

physics.bio-ph2014★ 96 cited

Enhanced active swimming in viscoelastic fluids

Emily E. Riley, Eric Lauga

Swimming microorganisms often self propel in fluids with complex rheology. While past theoretical work indicates that fluid viscoelasticity should hinder their locomotion, recent e…

q-bio.BM2014★ 47 cited

Adsorption at Liquid Interfaces Induces Amyloid Fibril Bending and Ring Formation

Sophia Jordens, Emily E. Riley, Ivan Usov +3

Protein fibril accumulation at interfaces is an important step in many physiological processes and neurodegenerative diseases as well as in designing materials. Here we show, using…