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Clustering-induced self-propulsion of isotropic autophoretic particles

Self-diffusiophoretic particles exploit local concentration gradients of a solute species in order to self-propel at the micron scale. While an isolated chemically- and geometrically-isotropic particle cannot swim, we show that it can achieve self-propulsion through interactions with other individua...

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Autores principales: Varma, Akhil, Montenegro-Johnson, Thomas D., Michelin, Sébastien
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Royal Society of Chemistry 2018
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6136269/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30058650
http://dx.doi.org/10.1039/c8sm00690c