Suppression of bacterial rheotaxis in wavy channels

Controlling the swimming behavior of bacteria is crucial, for example, to prevent contamination of ducts and catheters. We show that bacteria modeled by deformable microswimmers can accumulate in flows through straight microchannels either in their center or on previously unknown attractors near the...

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Main Authors: Winfried Schmidt, Igor S. Aranson, Walter Zimmermann
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Physical Society 2022-10-01
Series:Physical Review Research
Online Access:http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.4.043005