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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Main Authors: Toshihiro Omori, Takuji Ishikawa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: MDPI AG 2019-01-01
Series:Micromachines
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Online Access:https://www.mdpi.com/2072-666X/10/2/78