Self-assembled autonomous runners and tumblers.

A class of artificial microswimmers with combined translational and rotational self-propulsion is studied experimentally. The chemically fueled microswimmers are made of doublets of Janus colloidal beads with catalytic patches that are positioned at a fixed angle relative to one another. The mean-sq...

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Main Authors: Ebbens, S, Jones, R, Ryan, A, Golestanian, R, Howse, JR
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: 2010