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SUBMITTER: Hassanpourfard M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4538384 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Hassanpourfard Mahtab M Nikakhtari Zahra Z Ghosh Ranajay R Das Siddhartha S Thundat Thomas T Liu Yang Y Kumar Aloke A
Scientific reports 20150817
One of the central puzzles concerning the interaction of low Reynolds number fluid transport with bacterial biomass is the formation of filamentous structures called streamers. In this manuscript, we report our discovery of a new kind of low Re bacterial streamers, which appear from pre-formed bacterial flocs. In sharp contrast to the biofilm-mediated streamers, these streamers form over extremely small timescales (less than a second). Our experiments, carried out in a microchannel with micropil ...[more]