A chapter authored by Ben Evans appears in a Biomimetic Based Applications, a recently-released book published by InTech.
The field of biomimetics, in which researchers build devices which mimic biological structures or functions, has been rapidly expanding in recent years. In particular, efforts to produce artificial cilia which may be actuated with magnetic fields has been a topic of great interest. Such structures may be used to pump or mix fluids in microscale applications, or as a tool to aid in our understanding of the biological system which they mimic.
Evans has been an active contributor to the field since publishing the first manuscript describing cilia-like magnetic microactuators in 2007. This new work, entitled “Design Considerations for Magnetically Actuated Cilia,” presents a toolkit of materials and theoretical considerations which will aid researchers in developing similar microactuators in the future.
The book is available online through open access publisher InTech.