Artificial Cilia for Active Micro-Fluidic Mixing

Top view of artificial cilia, actuated in air. The length and the width of the individual cilia are 100 μm and 20 μm,... 

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Swarm of rotating particle chains

This movie depicts the influences of field gradients on a collection of vertical rotating magnetic particle chains forming... 

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Disaggregation of micro-particle clusters

This movie depicts the initialization of a magnetic particle distribution using a vertical magnetic field orthogonal to the fluid... 

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Chaotic fluid mixing

This movie depicts the different steps of image analysis to evaluate the mixing of a water-dye interface actuated by a rotating... 

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Rotating magnetic particle chain in a viscous fluid

This movie depicts the rotational dynamics of an experimental 12-bead chain from rigid behavior to the third breakup transition.

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Longer cilia formation

A sheet of magnetic artificial cilia with length of tens of microns actuated by external magnetic field in water

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Magnetic artificial cilia

200 micrometers long magnetic artificial cilia actuated by external magnetic field at different frequencies, recorded at high... 

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