Book description
Microbiorobotics: Biologically Inspired Microscale Robotic Systems, Second Edition presents information on a new engineering discipline that takes a multidisciplinary approach to accomplish precise manipulation of microscale spaces.
Microorganisms have evolved various mechanisms to thrive in microscale environments and are therefore a useful tool for use in many applications, ranging from micromanufacturing techniques, to cellular manipulation. In the context of microrobotics, biological microrobots can directly harness the microorganisms for propulsive and sensing power and synthetic microrobots can mimic the microorganisms’ motions for effective locomotion.
This second edition covers new advances and insights that have emerged in recent years. Several new chapters have been added on important new research areas, with existing chapters thoroughly revised. In particular, increased coverage is given to fluid dynamics of microswimmers in nature.
- Gives the reader an understanding of the fundamental changes in dynamics and fabrication techniques in the microenvironment
- Offers a unique two-pronged approach to microrobotics from a biological perspective, i.e. bioinspired engineering design of biological systems to accomplish engineering tasks
- Introduces an interdisciplinary readership to the toolkit that micro-organisms offer to micro-engineering
Table of contents
- Cover image
- Title page
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- Contributors
- About the editors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Part 1: Introduction
- Part 2: Theoretical Microbiorobotics
- Part 3: Biological Microrobots
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Part 4: Synthetic Microrobots
- Chapter 7: Control of three bead achiral robotic microswimmers
- Chapter 8: Micro- and nanorobots in Newtonian and biological viscoelastic fluids
- Chapter 9: Magnetic microrobots for microbiology
- Chapter 10: Magnetic mobile microrobots for mechanobiology and automated biomanipulation
- Chapter 11: Magnetic swarm control of microorganisms
- Perspectives and outlook
- Index
Product information
- Title: Microbiorobotics, 2nd Edition
- Author(s):
- Release date: March 2017
- Publisher(s): Elsevier
- ISBN: 9780323430197
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