By Robin H A Ras, Abraham Marmur, Michael Nosonovsky, Frédéric Guittard, Ilker S Bayer, Sami Franssila, Kock-Yee Law, Pavel A. Levkin, Lei Jiang, Kripa K. Varanasi, Alidad Amirfazli, Glen McHale, Anish Tuteja
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The publication is separated into 3 sections, first masking the idea, then happening to guidance of those surfaces and at last discussing the functions in detail.
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1039/9781782623953-00012 26 Chapter 2 Walker demonstrated by a simple experiment that droplets of an aqueous soap solution can levitate in a non-coalescent state above a vibrating bath of the same bulk solution. 29 Recently this phenomenon has attracted the attention of researchers once again. 30 demonstrated that silicone oil droplets could be levitated indefinitely over a sinusoidally vibrating (A cos Ωt) bath of oil. While Walker noticed indefinitely levitating droplets only in the presence of standing waves on the bulk liquid surface, Couder et al.
Similarly to what we have observed in the preceding sections, such a motion (fast vibration) results in the effective propulsive force which drags the microorganism forward, facilitating aquatic locomotion. 44 In general, a system should involve an asymmetry to realize this effect. According to Blekhman’s classification,44 there are six main types of such asymmetry caused by force, kinematic, structural, gradient, wave, and initial conditions asymmetry which can lead to an effective propulsive force.