Many biological and neural systems can be seen as networks of interacting periodic
processes. Importantly, their functionality, ie, whether these networks can perform their …

Fluid manipulation plays an important role in biomedical applications such as biochemical
assays, medical diagnostics, and drug development. Programmable fluidic manipulation at …

Living cilia stir, sweep and steer via swirling strokes of complex bending and twisting, paired
with distinct reverse arcs,. Efforts to mimic such dynamics synthetically rely on multimaterial …

Metachronal waves commonly exist in natural cilia carpets. These emergent phenomena,
which originate from phase differences between neighbouring self-beating cilia, are …

Sperm motility is crucial to reproductive success in sexually reproducing organisms.
Impaired sperm movement causes male infertility, which is increasing globally. Sperm are …

Coordinated nonreciprocal dynamics in biological cilia is essential to many living systems,
where the emergentmetachronal waves of cilia have been hypothesized to enhance net fluid …

Liquid flowing around a solid edge, ie, overflow, is a commonly observed flow behavior.
Recent research into surface wetting properties and microstructure-controlled overflow …

Biological cilia play essential roles in self-propulsion, food capture, and cell transportation
by performing coordinated metachronal motions. Experimental studies to emulate the …

Nature provides a successful evolutionary direction for single‐celled organisms to solve
complex problems and complete survival tasks–pseudopodium. Amoeba, a unicellular …

Light‐fueled self‐oscillators based on soft actuating materials have triggered novel designs
for small‐scale robotic constructs that self‐sustain their motion at non‐equilibrium states and …