Controlled propulsion in viscous fluids of magnetically actuated colloidal doublets.
Tierno P, Güell O, Sagués F, Golestanian R, Pagonabarraga I.
Tierno P, et al.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010 Jan;81(1 Pt 1):011402. doi: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011402. Epub 2010 Jan 8.
Phys Rev E Stat Nonlin Soft Matter Phys. 2010.
PMID: 20365368
The applied field forces the doublet to precess around an axis parallel to the plane of motion and the rotation of the colloidal assembly is rectified into translation due to a periodic asymmetry in dissipation close to the bounding plate. These recent experimental findings [P …
The applied field forces the doublet to precess around an axis parallel to the plane of motion and the rotation of the colloidal assembly is …