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Modeling and Swimming Property Characterizations of Scaled-Up Helical Microswimmers.

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Micro- and nanorobots capable of controlled propulsion at low Reynolds number are foreseen to change many aspects of medicine by enabling targeted diagnosis and therapy, and minimally invasive surgery. Several kinds of helical swimmers with different heads actuated by a rotating magnetic field have been proposed in prior works. Beyond these proofs of concepts, this paper aims to obtain an optimized design of the helical swimmers adapted to low Reynolds numbers. For this, we designed an experimental setup and scaled-up helical nanobelt swimmers with different head and tail coatings to compare their rotational propulsion characteristics. We found in this paper that the head shape of a helical swimmer does not influence the shape of the rotational propulsion characteristics curve, but it influences the cutoff frequency values. The rotational propulsion characteristics of the helical swimmers with a magnetic head or a magnetic tail are different. The helical swimmers with uniformly coated magnetic tails do not show a cutoff frequency, whereas the ones with a magnetic head exhibit a saturation of frequency.
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hal-01324577 , version 1 (09-06-2016)

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Tiantian Xu, Gilgueng Hwang, Nicolas Andreff, Stéphane Régnier. Modeling and Swimming Property Characterizations of Scaled-Up Helical Microswimmers.. IEEE/ASME Transactions on Mechatronics, 2014, 19 (3), pp.1069-1079. ⟨hal-01324577⟩
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