Microscopic artificial swimmers

By R. Dreyfus, J. Baudry, Marcus L. Roper, M. Fermigier, Howard A. Stone, J. Bibette. Nature, 2005

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Biomedical Applications of Untethered Mobile Milli/Microrobots (2015, background): “(i) biohybrid magnetic microswimmer [24].”
Microswimming in viscoelastic fluids (2021, background): “In the lab, different types of artificial swimmers have been designed and fabricated to mimic the swimming behavior of microorganisms; this includes self-phoretic colloids [29], particles externally actuated by magnetic, acoustic, electric fields [30, 31, 32], vibrated granular matter [33] and”
The shape – morphing performance of magnetoactive soft materials (2021, background): “Moreover, MSMs demonstrate other interesting capabilities, for example, locomotion [16,90,91], highly programable [92,93], and precise shape transformation [94,95] and even remote heat generation [96,97].”
Magneto-aerotactic bacteria deliver drug-containing nanoliposomes to tumour hypoxic regions (2016, neutral): “Although microscopic artificial swimmers 23 could be envisioned as an alternative to the use of natural microorganisms, embedding an equivalent level of functionality in artificial agents to compete against such natural microorganisms in delivering therapeutics effectively to tumour hypoxic regions…”