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LAB ON A CHIP
Volume 16, Issue 7, Pages 1101-1105Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c6lc90022d
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- European Research Council (ERC) [311529]
- National Research Foundation of Korea (NRF) - Korean government (MSIP) [2014R1A2A1A01006527, 2011-0030075]
- ICREA Funding Source: Custom
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Microswimmers, such as bacteria, are known to show different behaviours depending on their local environment. They identify spatial chemical gradients to find nutrient rich areas (chemotaxis) and interact with shear flows to accumulate in high shear regions. Recently, artificial microswimmers have been developed which mimic their natural counterparts in many ways. One of the exciting topics in this field is to study these artificial motors in several natural settings like the ones bacteria interact with. In this Focus article, we summarize recent observations of artificial swimmers in chemical gradients, shear flows and other interesting natural environments simulated in the lab using microfluidics and nanotechnology.
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