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SUBMITTER: Lin YH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC11365977 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lin Yu-Hsiang YH Piñan Basualdo Franco N FN Kalpathy Venkiteswaran Venkatasubramanian V Misra Sarthak S
Scientific reports 20240831 1
Microfluidics has enabled the miniaturization of fluidic systems for various biomedical and industrial applications, including small-scale robotic propulsion. One mechanism for generating propulsive force through microfluidics is by exploiting the solutal Marangoni effect via releasing surfactant on the air-water interface. Surfactants locally reduce the surface tension, which leads to a surface stress that can propel the floating robot, called Marangoni surfer. However, so far the release of th ...[more]