Orientational dynamics and rheology of active suspensions in weakly viscoelastic flows

Abstract Microswimmer suspensions in Newtonian fluids exhibit unusual macroscale properties, such as a superfluidic behavior, which can be harnessed to perform work at microscopic scales. Since most biological fluids are non-Newtonian, here we study the rheology of a microswimmer suspension in a wea...

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Main Authors: Akash Choudhary, Sankalp Nambiar, Holger Stark
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2023-07-01
Series:Communications Physics
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-023-01279-w