Swimming of Spermatozoa in a Maxwell Fluid
It has been suggested that the swimming mechanism used by spermatozoa could be adopted for self-propelled micro-robots in small environments and potentially applied to biomedical engineering. Mammalian sperm cells must swim through a viscoelastic mucus layer to find the egg cell. Thus, understanding...
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| Language: | English |
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MDPI AG
2019-01-01
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| Series: | Micromachines |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/10/2/78 |