Two-dimensional nature of the active Brownian motion of catalytic microswimmers at solid and liquid interfaces

Colloidal particles equipped with platinum patches can establish chemical gradients in H _2 O _2 -enriched solutions and undergo self-propulsion due to local diffusiophoretic migration. In bulk (3D), this class of active particles swim in the direction of the surface heterogeneities introduced by th...

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Main Authors: Kilian Dietrich, Damian Renggli, Michele Zanini, Giovanni Volpe, Ivo Buttinoni, Lucio Isa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: IOP Publishing 2017-01-01
Series:New Journal of Physics
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1088/1367-2630/aa7126