4 papers
Swimming-limited aggregation of bacteria in liquid crystals
Guillaume Sintès, Martyna Goral, Teresa López-León +2
Aggregation and fragmentation processes are widespread in engineering and the natural world. Here, we investigate a distinct colloidal aggregation mechanism in an active system of…
Active bacterial baths in droplets
Cristian Villalobos-Concha, Zhengyang Liu, Gabriel Ramos +6
Suspensions of self-propelled objects represent a novel paradigm in colloidal science. In such active baths traditional concepts, such as Brownian motion, fluctuation-dissipation r…
Color-switching hydrogels as integrated microfluidic pressure sensors
Lucie Ducloué, Md. Anamul Haque, Martyna Goral +3
Precisely measuring pressure in microfluidic flows is essential for flow control, fluid characterization, and monitoring, but faces specific challenges such as \RE{achieving} suffi…
Frustrated run and tumble of swimming E-coli bacteria in nematic liquid crystals
Martyna Goral, Eric Clement, Thierry Darnige +2
In many situations bacteria move in complex environments, as for example in soils, oceans or the human gut-track microbiome. In these natural environments, carrier fluids such as m…