Achieving control over the directionality of active colloids is essential for their use in practical
applications such as cargo carriers in microfluidic devices. So far, guidance of spherical …

The swimming trajectories of self-propelled organisms or synthetic devices in a viscous fluid
can be altered by hydrodynamic interactions with nearby boundaries. We explore a …

Rheotaxis, the directed response to fluid velocity gradients, has been shown to facilitate
stable upstream swimming of mammalian sperm cells along solid surfaces, suggesting a …

We theoretically investigate self-oscillating waves of an active material, which were recently
introduced as a nonsymmetric part of the elastic moduli, termed odd elasticity. Using …

This paper deals with the benefits of using a nonlinear model-based approach for controlling
magnetically guided therapeutic microrobots in the cardiovascular system. Such robots used …

The paper addresses the 2D observer-based control of a magnetic microrobot navigating in
a cylindrical blood vessel along a reference trajectory. In particular, this robot faces the …

We consider the active Brownian particle model for a two-dimensional microswimmer with
fixed speed, whose direction of swimming changes according to a Brownian process. The …

The locomotion of microorganisms in fluids is ubiquitous and plays an important role in
numerous biological processes. For example, mammalian spermatozoa undergo a long …

This paper presents an optimal design strategy for therapeutic magnetic micro carriers
(TMMC) guided in real time by a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system. As aggregates …

The emerging field of self-driven active particles in fluid environments has recently created
significant interest in the biophysics and bioengineering communities owing to their …