A single technique can produce a menagerie of tiny artificial swimmers that swim a medley of strokes, researchers report in an upcoming Physical Review E paper. Among the moves: zipping through liquid in a straight line, whirling around in tight circles and gliding in complicated loop-the-loop flower patterns.
SWIMMING ALONG Gray lines show a diverse collection of microswimmers’ moves from start (pink) to finish (blue) over 25 seconds.
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