PICS Colloquium: “Micro-organism Locomotion in Viscoelastic Fluids”
PICS Colloquium: “Micro-organism Locomotion in Viscoelastic Fluids”
Many microorganisms and cells function in complex (non-Newtonian) fluids, which are mixtures of different materials that exhibit both viscous and elastic stresses. For example, mammalian sperm swim through cervical mucus on their journey through the female reproductive tract, and they must penetrate the viscoelastic gel outside the ovum to fertilize. In micro-scale swimming the dynamics […]