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Metallic Microswimmers Driven up the Wall by Gravity
Quentin Brosseau, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Enkeleida Lushi +5
As a natural and functional behavior, various microorganisms exhibit gravitaxis by orienting and swimming upwards against gravity. Swimming autophoretic nanomotors described herein…
Relating microswimmer synthesis to rheotactic tunability
Quentin Brosseau, Florencio Balboa Usabiaga, Enkeleida Lushi +5
We explore the behavior of micron-scale autophoretic Janus (Au/Pt) rods, having various Au/Pt length ratios, swimming near a wall in an imposed background flow. We find that their…
Lattices of hydrodynamically interacting flapping swimmers
Anand U. Oza, Leif Ristroph, Michael J. Shelley
Fish schools and bird flocks exhibit complex collective dynamics whose self-organization principles are largely unknown. The influence of hydrodynamics on such collectives has been…
Guiding microscale swimmers using teardrop-shaped posts
Megan S. Davies Wykes, Xiao Zhong, Jiajun Tong +6
The swimming direction of biological or artificial microscale swimmers tends to be randomised over long time-scales by thermal fluctuations. Bacteria use various strategies to bias…
Dynamic self-assembly of microscale rotors and swimmers
Megan S. Davies Wykes, Jeremie Palacci, Takuji Adachi +5
Biological systems often involve the self-assembly of basic components into complex and function- ing structures. Artificial systems that mimic such processes can provide a well-co…