Bioinspired cilia arrays with programmable nonreciprocal motion and metachronal coordination

• Main Authors: Dong, Xiaoguang, Lum, Guo Zhan, Hu, Wenqi, Zhang, Rongjing, Ren, Ziyu, Onck, Patrick R., Sitti, Metin
• Other Authors: School of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Engineering::Mechanical engineering; Miniature Instruments; Reynolds Number
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/10356/146076
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Coordinated nonreciprocal dynamics in biological cilia is essential to many living systems, where the emergentmetachronal waves of cilia have been hypothesized to enhance net fluid flows at low Reynolds numbers (Re). Experimental investigation of this hypothesis is critical but remains challenging....