4 accepted papers
Helical swimmers, actuated by low-strength uniform rotating magnetic fields, can develop swimming and pumping in low Reynolds number environments. They could play an important role for future in vitro and in vivo biomedical microrobotic tasks. Studying how their morphology influences swimming and pu
The use of untethered miniature swimmers is a promising trend, especially in biomedical applications. These swimmers are often operated remotely using a magnetic field commonly generated using fixed coils that can suffer from a lack of compactness and heating issues. The analysis of the swimming cap
Flexible and helical magnetic microswimmers have been well reviewed in the literature because they could be exploited for envisaged applications such as targeted drug delivery, material removal, and micromanipulation. In this article, scaled-up versions of those robots are introduced to study in det…
In this paper, a closed-loop strategy for controlling the transient regime of Marangoni flows and thus to selectively manipulate and separate micro-particles is reported. Marangoni flows were generated by an infrared laser as a heat source. Simulations of the transient regime of Marangoni flows were…