The DOI matches its Crossref record; 2 of the 2 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Selectively manipulable acoustic-powered microswimmers
Open accessAbstract
Selective actuation of a single microswimmer from within a diverse group would be afirst step toward collaborative guided action by a group of swimmers. Here wedescribe a new class of microswimmer that accomplishes this goal. Our swimmer designovercomes the commonly-held design paradigm that microswimmers must use non-reciprocal motion to achieve propulsion; instead, the swimmer ispropelled by oscillatory motion of an air bubble trapped within theswimmer's polymer body. This oscillatory motion is driven by theapplication of a low-power acoustic field, which is biocompatible with biologicalsamples and with the ambient liquid. This acoustically-powered microswimmeraccomplishes controllable and rapid translational and rotational motion, even inhighly viscous liquids (with viscosity 6,000 times higher than that of water). Andby using a group of swimmers each with a unique bubble size (and resulting uniqueresonance frequencies), selective actuation of a single swimmer from among the groupcan be readily achieved.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
Purcell, E. M. (1977) · American Journal of Physics · doi:10.1119/1.10903 · Cited by 4,360
Surface acoustic wave microfluidics
Ding, X., Li, P., Lin, S.-C. S., Stratton, Z. S., Nama, N., Guo, F., Slotcavage, D., Mao, X., Shi, J., Costanzo, F., et al. (2013) · Lab on a Chip · doi:10.1039/c3lc50361e · Cited by 926
Self-citation
Cited by
Rotational manipulation of single cells and organisms using acoustic waves
Ahmed, D., Ozcelik, A., Bojanala, N., Nama, N., Upadhyay, A., Chen, Y., Hanna-Rose, W., & Huang, T. J. (2016) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/ncomms11085 · Cited by 508
Self-citationRecent developments in magnetically driven micro- and nanorobots
Chen, X.-Z., Hoop, M., Mushtaq, F., Siringil, E., Hu, C., Nelson, B. J., & Pané, S. (2017) · Applied Materials Today · doi:10.1016/j.apmt.2017.04.006 · Cited by 373
Ultrasound-responsive systems as components for smart materials
Athanassiadis, A. G., Ma, Z., Moreno-Gomez, N., Melde, K., Choi, E., Goyal, R., & Fischer, P. (2022) · Chemical Reviews · doi:10.1021/acs.chemrev.1c00622 · Cited by 293
Ultrasound-activated ciliary bands for microrobotic systems inspired by starfish
Dillinger, C., Nama, N., & Ahmed, D. (2021) · Nature Communications · doi:10.1038/s41467-021-26607-y · Cited by 149
Self-citationModel-based reinforcement learning for ultrasound-driven autonomous microrobots
Medany, M., Piglia, L., Achenbach, L., Mukkavilli, S. K., & Ahmed, D. (2025) · Nature Machine Intelligence · doi:10.1038/s42256-025-01054-2 · Cited by 56
Self-citation
Metadata
- Authors
- Ahmed, D., Lu, M., Nourhani, A., Lammert, P. E., Stratton, Z., Muddana, H. S., Crespi, V. H., & Huang, T. J.
- Venue
- Scientific Reports
- Published
- 2015-05-20
- Volume
- 5
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 9744-9744
- ISSN
- 2045-2322 (ISSN-L)
- OpenAlex
- W2258395154
- Cited by
- 235
- References
- 2
- FWCI
- 8.92
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- gold
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Selectively manipulable acoustic-powered microswimmers. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1038/srep09744
- The paper
- Ahmed, D., Lu, M., Nourhani, A., Lammert, P. E., Stratton, Z., Muddana, H. S., Crespi, V. H., & Huang, T. J. (2015). Selectively manipulable acoustic-powered microswimmers. Scientific Reports. https://doi.org/10.1038/srep09744
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
