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6. 3-D Printed Swimming Microtori for Cargo Transport and Flow Manipulation

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Baker, Remmi, Montenegro-Johnson, Thomas, Sediako, Anton D., Thomson, Murray J., Sen, Ayusman, Lauga, Eric, and Aranson, Igor. S.

Subjects
Physics - Fluid Dynamics, Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter, 76-05, 76D07
Abstract

Through billions of years of evolution, microorganisms mastered unique swimming behaviors to thrive in complex fluid environments. Limitations in nanofabrication have thus far hindered the ability to design and program synthetic swimmers with the same abilities. Here we encode multi-behavioral responses in artificial swimmers such as microscopic, self-propelled tori using nanoscale 3D printing. We show experimentally and theoretically that the tori continuously transition between two primary swimming modes in response to a magnetic field. The tori also manipulate and transport other artificial swimmers, bimetallic nanorods, as well as passive colloidal particles. In the first behavioral mode, the tori accumulate and transport nanorods; in the second mode, nanorods align along the tori's self-generated streamlines. Our results indicate that such shape-programmed microswimmers have the potential to manipulate biological active matter, e.g. bacteria or cells.

Published
2020
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34. Social aggregation in the terrestrial isopod Armadillidium vulgare.

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MacPhail, Eleanor and Thomson, Murray

Subjects
*ANIMAL social behavior, *AIDS to navigation, *ANIMAL behavior, *PREDATION, *ISOPODA
Abstract

Social aggregative behaviour may have evolved in marine isopods to aid hunting, and help the animals protect themselves from predation. This social behaviour could have assisted some isopod species to make the evolutionary transition from marine to terrestrial environments, as aggregative huddling of isopods on land reduces desiccation when out of water. To determine if the common pill-bug Armadillidium vulgare demonstrates social behaviour, groups of animals were filmed for 60 min in an arena that contained a binary choice of two shelters. This experiment was directly repeated with the same specimens three more times in the same day and this series of four experimental runs was replicated a total of 10 times with a different group of animals for each of the 10 series. In most cases, the majority of specimens chose one of the two identical shelters at random, and congregated under this winning shelter. The amount of animals that congregated under the winning shelter, however, significantly decreased over the four consecutive runs, whereas the amount of animals that congregated under the losing shelter significantly increased with prior experience. These data indicate that A. vulgare is a social animal but this social behaviour can decrease with exposure to the novel environment. This attenuation in social behaviour may serve to decrease the drive to join the larger of the two groups in an area where a danger from predation has not been encountered and allow experienced animals to explore new terrain. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Published
2024
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