Control of Bioconvection and Its Mechanical Application : 4th Report : Generation of Upward Flow and Its Position Control

Bioconvective Linear Stability of Gravitactic Microorganisms

“…These efforts, which lead to the understanding of bioconvective instability, have produced novel and interesting applications. For example, Noever and Matsos [1] proposed a biosensor for monitoring the heavy metal Cadmium based in bioconvective patterns as redundant technique for analysis, a number of researchers [2][3][4][5][6] have been working on the control of bioconvection by applying electrical fields (as in galvanotaxis) to use it as a live micromechanical system to handle small objects immersing in suspensions, Itoh et al [7,8] use some ideas of bioconvection in a study for the motion control of microorganism groups like Euglena gracilis to manipulate objects by using its phototactic orientation (as in phototaxis), and more recently possibly bioconvection seeded the investigation of Kim et al [9,10] for using a feedback control strategy to manipulate the motions of Tetrahymena pyriformis as a microbiorobot, among others. Perhaps, further applications on biomimetics [11][12][13] at the nano-and microscale could be driven by this contribution.…”