Spontaneous autophoretic motion of isotropic particles

Physics of Fluids

Volumn 25, Issue 6, 2013, Pages

  Michelin, Sébastien ^a   Lauga, Eric ^b,d   Bartolo, Denis ^c  

^a ECOLE POLYTECHNIQUE   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PARTICLE SIZE;

COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; CRITICAL PARTICLE SIZE; ISOTROPIC PARTICLES; NONLINEAR INTERPLAY; OSMOTIC FLOW; SPONTANEOUS SYMMETRY BREAKING;

SOLS;

EID: 84880104270     PISSN: 10706631     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1063/1.4810749     Document Type: Article

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