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Surfing on metachronal waves: ciliary transport by inertial coasting
Rafał Błaszkiewicz, Margot Young, Albane Théry +4
Motile cilia drive biological fluid transport through whip-like beating motions that synchronize into metachronal waves. The lengths of these cilia span three orders of magnitude,…
Active Carpets in floating viscous films
Felipe A. Barros, Hugo N. Ulloa, Gabriel Aguayo +2
Earth's aquatic environments are inherently stratified layered systems where interfaces between layers serve as ecological niches for microbial swimmers, forming colonies known as…
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…
Interfacial activity dynamics of confined active droplets
Prashanth Ramesh, Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen +2
Active emulsions can spontaneously form self-propelled droplets or phoretic micropumps. It has been predicted that the interaction with their self-generated chemical fields can lea…
Culinary fluid mechanics and other currents in food science
Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Maciej Lisicki, Vivek N. Prakash +1
Innovations in fluid mechanics are leading to better food since ancient history, while creativity in cooking inspires applied and fundamental science. Here, we review how recent ad…
Amphibious Transport of Fluids and Solids by Soft Magnetic Carpets
Ahmet F. Demirörs, Sümeyye Aykut, Sophia Ganzeboom +8
One of the major challenges in modern robotics is controlling micromanipulation by active and adaptive materials. In the respiratory system, such actuation enables pathogen clearan…