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by hemmer 3581 days ago
Interestingly, these look very similar in design to so-called bacterial ratchets (see Fig 7 of [1]) which allow swimming bacteria to be sorted by size or swimming speed etc. People have even used these ideas to create tiny bacteria-powered motors [2].

[1] https://arxiv.org/abs/1604.01072

[2] http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2009/oct/23/bacteri...