Farzan Akbaridoust

1 Introduction The increase in infertility rates is a growing concern, affecting one in six couples worldwide, with male factors solely accounting for approximately 30% of cases.

Keywords sperm motility reproduction fertility μPIV microscopy Introduction Eukaryotic cells, such as sperm, parasites, and green algae, achieve locomotion by bending their whip-like cellular appendages known as flagella.1,2 The flagellar waveform is generated due to the 9+2 structure of the axoneme (nine pairs of microtubule doublets connecting to a central pair) via ATP-activated dynein arms that slide the outer microtubule doublets over the neighboring doublet.3 The ultimate waveform stems...

Characterisation of hydrodynamic trapping in microfluidic cross-slot devices for high strain rate applications† Aravind George, *a Farzan Akbaridoust, a Nurul A. Zainal Abidin, b Warwick S. Nesbittb and Ivan Marusica Abstract Hydrodynamic trapping of a particle or cluster of particles based on contact and non-contact approaches has brought prominent insights to micro-nano scale applications.