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Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A ; 118(31)2021 08 03.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-34326246

RESUMO

To mimic the mechanical response of passive biological cilia in complex fluids, we study the bending dynamics of an anchored elastic fiber submitted to a dilute granular suspension under shear. We show that the bending fluctuations of the fiber accurately encode minute variations of the granular suspension concentration. Indeed, besides the stationary bending induced by the continuous phase flow, the passage of each single particle induces an additional deflection. We demonstrate that the dominant particle/fiber interaction arises from contacts of the particles with the fiber, and we propose a simple elastohydrodynamics model to predict their amplitude. Our results provide a mechanistic and statistical framework to describe particle detection by biological ciliated systems.


Assuntos
Cílios/fisiologia , Modelos Biológicos , Animais , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Fenômenos Mecânicos , Tamanho da Partícula , Reologia , Resistência ao Cisalhamento
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Phys Rev E ; 102(1-1): 010602, 2020 Jul.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-32795025

RESUMO

Many living systems use assemblies of soft and slender structures whose deflections allow them to mechanically probe their immediate environment. In this work, we study the collective response of artificial soft hair assemblies to a shear flow by imaging their deflections. At all hair densities, the deflection is found to be proportional to the local shear stress with a proportionality factor that decreases with density. The measured collective stiffening of hairs is modeled both with a microscopic elastohydrodynamic model that takes into account long-range hydrodynamic hair-hair interactions and a phenomenological model that treats the hair assemblies as an effective porous medium. While the microscopic model is in reasonable agreement with the experiments at low hair density, the phenomenological model is found to be predictive across the entire density range.


Assuntos
Cabelo , Fenômenos Mecânicos , Fenômenos Biomecânicos , Porosidade , Resistência ao Cisalhamento
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J R Soc Interface ; 16(159): 20190362, 2019 10 31.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-31575348

RESUMO

An experimental biomimetic tongue-palate system has been developed to probe human in-mouth texture perception. Model tongues are made from soft elastomers patterned with fibrillar structures analogous to human filiform papillae. The palate is represented by a rigid flat plate parallel to the plane of the tongue. To probe the behaviour under physiological flow conditions, deflections of model papillae are measured using a novel fluorescent imaging technique enabling sub-micrometre resolution of the displacements. Using optically transparent Newtonian liquids under steady shear flow, we show that deformations of the papillae allow their viscosity to be determined from 1 Pa s down to the viscosity of water (1 mPa s), in full quantitative agreement with a previously proposed model (Lauga et al. 2016 Front. Phys.4, 35 (doi:10.3389/fphy.2016.00035)). The technique is further validated for a shear-thinning and optically opaque dairy system.


Assuntos
Órgãos Artificiais , Materiais Biomiméticos , Língua , Percepção do Tato , Animais , Humanos
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Front Neurosci ; 10: 562, 2016.
Artigo em Inglês | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-28018161

RESUMO

In this article, we numerically resolve the flow profiles of tastant concentration in the pipe of a gustometer used to deliver alternative pulses in concentration, which is a typical case of Taylor dispersion. Using this model, we can define the cases where the experimenter will deliver to the assessors a concentration profile which is significantly different from that intended. This can be simply assessed a priori using a scaling argument which involves calculating a dimensionless frequency. This is a function of the pulses frequency, the dimensions of the pipe and the flow rate used. We show that unless this parameter is taken into account, modifying the pulse frequency will modify the pulse amplitude. This design criterion is absent from the literature but we suggest this is important for designing such experiments.

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