Instability of expanding bacterial droplets

Sokolov et al. have previously shown how bacteria are expelled in response to a rotating microparticle. Here the authors find that when the microparticle is spun at much higher rotation rates bacteria are trapped around it and then are expelled radially upon rotation cessation in an explosion-like m...

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Main Authors: Andrey Sokolov, Leonardo Dominguez Rubio, John F. Brady, Igor S. Aranson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2018-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-03758-z