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Colloidal Microrobotic Swarms

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Swarm behaviour of living systems, which stems from the self-organization among individual elements, is a common feature in nature. Since two decades ago, scientists begin to investigate the principles of natural swarms and try to leverage them for promising applications. This chapter reviews the fundamental principles and potential biomedical applications of microrobotic swarms driven by magnetic, electric, optical and acoustic fields and chemical signaling and will also elaborate one type of the swarms, vortex-like swarms, about its generation principles, mechanism analysis and actuation and control methods.

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    Qian Zou, Yibin Wang & Jiangfan Yu

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    Qian Zou, Yibin Wang & Jiangfan Yu

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Zou, Q., Wang, Y., Yu, J. (2022). Colloidal Microrobotic Swarms. In: Sun, Y., Wang, X., Yu, J. (eds) Field-Driven Micro and Nanorobots for Biology and Medicine. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80197-7_8

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