Designing phoretic micro- and nano-swimmers
Small objects can swim by generating around them fields or gradients which in turn induce fluid motion past their surface by phoretic surface effects. We quantify for arbitrary swimmer shapes and surface patterns, how efficient swimming requires both surface ``activity'' to generate the fi...
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| Format: | Journal article |
| Language: | English |
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IOP Publishing
2007
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