Controlling phoretic swimmer trajectory

Individually propulsive catalytic Janus particle swimmers are observed to self-assemble into aggregate swimmers with a wide variety of translational and rotational velocities. The trajectory for a given doublet is shown to be determined by the frozen in relative orientation of the particles. The new...

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Hauptverfasser: Ebbens, S, Sadeghi, A, Howse, J, Golestanian, R, Jones, R
Format: Journal article
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: 2011