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Highly effective contrast enhancer that processes targeting ability and maneuverability is in great demand in clinics for accurate diagnosis. Here a new strategy using deformable and manipulatable magnetic microswarm as MRI contrast enhancer is developed. Magnetic microswarm aggregated from nanoparticles is inherently deformable and they can be controlled with multiple programmable deform abilities. It is demonstrated that spatiotemporal programming magnetic field enables the magnetic microswarm not only to exhibit both ribbon‐like and round‐like behaviours but also to adaptively navigate multiple terrains. Intestinal model is conducted to explore the effect of magnetic microswarm as MRI enhancer, indicating the obvious enhancement of T2‐weighted MRI sequences. This magnetic microswarm holds great promise for highly sensitive and accurate intestinal MRI in the clinic. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

We numerically investigated the transitional behavior of two-dimensional laminar flows through and around a square array of 100 circular cylinders. The solid fraction of the array ϕ ranged from 0.007 85 to 0.661 and the Reynolds number Re (based on the free-stream velocity and the side length of the array) varied from 40 to 200. Globally, the first transition appears at the onset of vortex shedding, where the critical Reynolds number Recr is estimated from the Stuart-Landau equation. The results show that Recr ranges from 40 to ∼45 for the investigated range of ϕ. It is found that Recr increases quadratically with ϕ and the critical Reynolds number for an individual cylinder (Rdcr) increases linearly with ϕ . The subsequent transitions largely depend on ϕ, as revealed from the total drag and lift coefficients, Strouhal number, and the instantaneous vorticity field. For sufficiently small ϕ at high Re, the global vortex shedding is suppressed due to the weakened interaction between cylinders in the array. Several more cases with ϕ of 0.007 85 for Re between 400 and 4000 are also calculated to visualize the suppression behavior. The global transition behaviors are closely related to the secondary frequency (SF) observed from the power spectra of the local velocity. It is highly possible that the SF results from the cylinder interaction in the array. The local instabilities induced by cylinder interactions would promote the onset of global vortex shedding at small Re. Also, the local instabilities still exist even though the global vortex shedding is suppressed at large Re. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Highly effective contrast enhancer that processes targeting ability and maneuverability is in great demand in clinics for accurate diagnosis. Here a new strategy using deformable and manipulatable magnetic microswarm as MRI contrast enhancer is developed. Magnetic microswarm aggregated from nanoparticles is inherently deformable and they can be controlled with multiple programmable deform abilities. It is demonstrated that spatiotemporal programming magnetic field enables the magnetic microswarm not only to exhibit both ribbon-like and round-like behaviours but also to adaptively navigate multiple terrains. Intestinal model is conducted to explore the effect of magnetic microswarm as MRI enhancer, indicating the obvious enhancement of T 2 -weighted MRI sequences. This magnetic microswarm holds great promise for highly sensitive and accurate intestinal MRI in the clinic., (© 2022 Wiley-VCH GmbH.)