Moving microswimmers with tiny swirling flows

Moving microswimmers with tiny swirling flows Lemont IL (SPX) Apr 01, 2016 - Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory have discovered a way to use a microscopic, swirling flow to rapidly clear a circle of tiny bacteria or swimming robots. "This discovery offers a new approach for control and manipulation of microscopic swimmers," said Argonne physicist and co-author Igor Aronson, and it could be useful in tiny microfluidic ("lab-on- ... more

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