Controlled propulsion in viscous fluids of magnetically actuated colloidal doublets

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 81, Issue 1, 2010, Pages

  Tierno, Pietro ^a,b   Güell, Oriol ^a,b   Sagués, Francesc ^a,b   Golestanian, Ramin ^c   Pagonabarraga, Ignacio ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPLIED FIELD; COLLOIDAL ASSEMBLY; DRIVING FIELD; MAGNETIC MODULATION; NUMERICAL SIMULATION; OPTIMIZATION OF PROPULSION; VISCOUS FLUIDS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; MAGNETIC FIELDS;

PROPULSION;

EID: 75349111478     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: 15502376     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.81.011402     Document Type: Article

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