Design and analysis of helical flagella propelled nanorobots

4th IEEE International Conference on Nano/Micro Engineered and Molecular Systems, NEMS 2009

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 950-953

  Subramanian, S ^a   Rathore, J S ^a   Sharma, N N ^a  

^a BIRLA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY AND SCIENCE   (India)

Author keywords

Flagellar hydrodynamics; Helical flagellar propulsion; Nanorobotics; Resistive force theory

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL MODEL; APPARENT VISCOSITY; BIOLOGICAL FLUIDS; BIOLOGICAL ORGANISMS; BIOMEDICAL APPLICATIONS; DESIGN AND ANALYSIS; DEVELOPED MODEL; ENVIRONMENT MONITORING; FLAGELLAR HYDRODYNAMICS; HELICAL FLAGELLAR PROPULSION; LOW REYNOLDS NUMBER; MEDICAL TECHNOLOGIES; NANO-FABRICATION METHODS; NANO-SIZE; NANOMETER SIZE; NANOROBOTS; NARROW CHANNEL; PERFORMANCE PARAMETERS; PROPULSION MECHANISMS; RESISTIVE FORCE THEORY;

FLUID DYNAMICS; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACHINE DESIGN; MEDICAL APPLICATIONS; PROPULSION; REYNOLDS NUMBER; ROBOTS;

NANOROBOTICS;

EID: 70349687735     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/NEMS.2009.5068731     Document Type: Conference Paper

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