Oscillatory rheotaxis of artificial swimmers in microchannels

Biological and artificial microswimmers often navigate channels under external flow, where in many biomicroswimmers the active upstream motion is oscillatory. Here the authors demonstrate that regular, controllable, and reproducible oscillatory rheotaxis can be observed in artificial microswimmers.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Ranabir Dey, Carola M. Buness, Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Chenyu Jin, Corinna C. Maass
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-30611-1