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Emergence of bimodal motility in active droplets
Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Ranabir Dey, Maziyar Jalaal +5
To explore and react to their environment, living micro-swimmers have developed sophisticated strategies for locomotion - in particular, motility with multiple gaits. To understand…
Topological Stabilization and Dynamics of Self-propelling Nematic Shells
Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Kyle A. Baldwin, Carsten Krüger +2
Liquid shells (e.g. double emulsions, vesicles etc.) are susceptible to interfacial instability and rupturing when driven out of mechanical equilibrium. This poses a significant ch…
Magnetic Levitation Stabilized by Streaming Fluid Flows
K. A. Baldwin, J. -B. de Fouchier, P. Atkinson +3
We demonstrate that the ubiquitous laboratory magnetic stirrer provides a simple passive method of magnetic levitation, in which the so-called `flea' levitates indefinitely. We stu…
Drying and deposition of poly(ethylene oxide) droplets determined by Péclet number
Kyle Anthony Baldwin, Manon Granjard, David Willmer +2
We report results of a detailed experimental investigation into the drying of sessile droplets of aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) polymer solutions under various experimental co…
Growth of solid conical structures during multistage drying of sessile poly(ethylene oxide) droplets
David Willmer, Kyle Anthony Baldwin, Charles Kwartnik +1
Sessile droplets of aqueous poly(ethylene oxide) solution, with average molecular weight of 100 kDa, are monitored during evaporative drying at ambient conditions over a range of i…