Armored Regenerable Cilia.

ABSTRACT: Flexible cilia of natural species are well-known for their capabilities to transport objects by their collective motions. Therefore, well-ordered, flexible, and stimuli-responsive artificial cilia have been developed to render similar functionalities. However, flexibility and stimuli-responsiveness of a microcilium are inherently incompatible with durability/robustness against mechanical damage, limiting the artificial cilia to applications with only gentle operating conditions. The critical (but long neglected in surface engineering) property of natural hairs is that they are rooted under the skin, allowing the regeneration of the damaged hairs from their undamaged roots (hair follicles). To integrate the functionalities of cilia and hair, we developed a fabrication strategy called stenci

SUBMITTER: Wei C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11867016 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature