3 papers
cond-mat.soft2020
Soft matter science and the COVID-19 pandemic
Wilson C K Poon, Aidan T Brown, Susana O. L. Direito +9
Much of the science underpinning the global response to the COVID-19 pandemic lies in the soft matter domain. Coronaviruses are composite particles with a core of nucleic acids com…
cond-mat.soft2018
Dynamic optical rectification and delivery of active particles
Nick Koumakis, Aidan T. Brown, Jochen Arlt +3
We use moving light patterns to control the motion of {\it Escherichia coli} bacteria whose motility is photo-activated. Varying the pattern speed controls the magnitude and direct…
physics.flu-dyn2018
Sedimentation of a rigid helix in viscous media
Martina Palusa, Joost de Graaf, Aidan Brown +1
We consider sedimentation of a rigid helical filament in a viscous fluid under gravity. In the Stokes limit, the drag forces and torques on the filament are approximated within the…