2 papers
cond-mat.soft2024
Floating active carpets drive transport and aggregation in aquatic ecosystems
Gabriel Aguayo, Arnold J. T. M. Mathijssen, Hugo N. Ulloa +2
Communities of swimming microorganisms often thrive near liquid-air interfaces. We study how such `active carpets' shape their aquatic environment by driving biogenic transport in…
physics.flu-dyn2024
Active Carpets in floating viscous films
Felipe A. Barros, Hugo N. Ulloa, Gabriel Aguayo +2
Earth's aquatic environments are inherently stratified layered systems where interfaces between layers serve as ecological niches for microbial swimmers, forming colonies known as…