Interaction of microswimmers in viscoelastic liquid crystals
Bacterial collective behavior in visco-elastic media is an open area of research. The authors computationally study a viscoelastic environment to look at the trajectories of microswimmers and their interaction, finding that a second swimmer is influenced by the first and that a swimmer changes speed...
Main Authors: | Hai Chi, Alexander Gavrikov, Leonid Berlyand, Igor S. Aranson |
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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Nature Portfolio
2022-11-01
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Series: | Communications Physics |
Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-022-01056-1 |
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