ArticleBiophysical journal2011
Secondary flow as a mechanism for the formation of biofilm streamers.
Article in Biophysical journal, 2011. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. An erratum has been issued. Cited by 45 papers.
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- Stress-hardening behaviour of biofilm streamers.Nature communications · 2025Article
- A Microfluidic Design for Quantitative Measurements of Shear Stress-Dependent Adhesion and Motion ofBiomimetics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Biofilm formation ofHeliyon · 2024Article
- Mesoscopic ring element growth and deformation induced biofilm streamer evolution in microfluidic channels.Water science and technology : a journal of the International Association on Water Pollution Research · 2024Article
- Microfluidic approaches in microbial ecology.Lab on a chip · 2024Review
- A microtiter peg lid with ziggurat geometry for medium-throughput antibiotic testing andBiofilm · 2023Article
- Bayesian estimation ofBiofilm · 2023Article
- Interaction of Bacteria, Immune Cells, and Surface Topography in Periprosthetic Joint Infections.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023Article
- Rapid formation of bioaggregates and morphology transition to biofilm streamers induced by pore-throat flows.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Experimental challenges in determining the rheological properties of bacterial biofilms.Interface focus · 2022Article
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- Early biofilm and streamer formation is mediated by wall shear stress and surface wettability: A multifactorial microfluidic study.MicrobiologyOpen · 2022Article
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- A microfluidic platform for characterizing the structure and rheology of biofilm streamers.Soft matter · 2022Article
- Environmental, Microbiological, and Immunological Features of Bacterial Biofilms Associated with Implanted Medical Devices.Clinical microbiology reviews · 2022Review
- The structural role of bacterial eDNA in the formation of biofilm streamers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- A Microfluidic Chip for Studies of the Dynamics of Antibiotic Resistance Selection in Bacterial Biofilms.Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology · 2022Article
- Impact of rheological properties on bacterial streamer formation.Journal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2021Article
- A microfluidic platform for in situ investigation of biofilm formation and its treatment under controlled conditions.Journal of nanobiotechnology · 2020Article
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Abstract
In most environments, such as natural aquatic systems, bacteria are found predominantly in self-organized sessile communities known as biofilms. In the presence of a significant flow, mature multispecies biofilms often develop into long filamentous structures called streamers, which can greatly influence ecosystem processes by increasing transient storage and cycling of nutrients. However, the interplay between hydrodynamic stresses and streamer formation is still unclear. Here, we show that suspended thread-like biofilms steadily develop in zigzag microchannels with different radii of curvature. Numerical simulations of a low-Reynolds-number flow around these corners indicate the presence of a secondary vortical motion whose intensity is related to the bending angle of the turn. We demonstrate that the formation of streamers is directly proportional to the intensity of the secondary flow around the corners. In addition, we show that a model of an elastic filament in a two-dimensional corner flow is able to explain how the streamers can cross fluid streamlines and connect corners located at the opposite sides of the channel.
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