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Cilia are hair-like structures that cover some cells' surfaces, and their rhythmic motions move liquids around the cells or help propel them. Now, in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, researchers have replicated these asynchronous movements in artificial cilia placed between rotating magnets, which could produce agile soft robots for biomedical applications, as well as microfluidic pumps. ACS’ Headline Science shows how the wave-like motions of magnetically controlled cilia propel crawling and climbing microscale robots.
“Metachronal μ-Cilia for On-Chip Integrated Pumps and Climbing Robots” - Shuaizhong Zhang, Ph.D. and Jaap den Toonder, Ph.D. - corresponding authors
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.1c03009
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Cilia are hair-like structures that cover some cells' surfaces, and their rhythmic motions move liquids around the cells or help propel them. Now, in ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces, researchers have replicated these asynchronous movements in artificial cilia placed between rotating magnets, which could produce agile soft robots for biomedical applications, as well as microfluidic pumps. ACS’ Headline Science shows how the wave-like motions of magnetically controlled cilia propel crawling and climbing microscale robots.
“Metachronal μ-Cilia for On-Chip Integrated Pumps and Climbing Robots” - Shuaizhong Zhang, Ph.D. and Jaap den Toonder, Ph.D. - corresponding authors
pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acsami.1c03009
You might also like:
Headline Science:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLG7h7fPoH8JRH8bEJdgnwZnyA5N-9UaE
ACS Spring 2021 Press Conferences - Archived:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLjdmj19Qw3briq-rasCTd4SboRf0Aa8bl
ACS Fall 2020 Virtual Meeting & Expo Press Conferences:
youtube.com/playlist?list=PLLG7h7fPoH8KhA_NDKs97w0_TGG9En0zn
Speaking of Chemistry:
youtube.com/watch?v=-wUPb1BDSOs&list=PLM2CTqSTy7cTLk-n7SOk9KrwCc1D8KKiH
Produced by the American Chemical Society, the world’s largest scientific society. ACS is a global leader in providing access to chemistry-related information and research through its multiple databases, peer-reviewed journals and scientific conferences.
Join the American Chemical Society! bit.ly/Join_ACS
#robots #bioscience #magnets
