Gravitaxis of asymmetric self-propelled colloidal particles

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ten Hagen, Borge ^a   Kümmel, Felix ^b   Wittkowski, Raphael ^c   Takagi, Daisuke ^d   Löwen, Hartmut ^a   Bechinger, Clemens ^b,e  

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; COLLOID; GRAVITY; MICROORGANISM; MOTILITY; TAXIS; TRAJECTORY;

ANISOTROPY; ARTICLE; COLLOID; DENSITY; DIFFUSION COEFFICIENT; GRAVITY; HYDRODYNAMICS; ILLUMINATION; LIGHT INTENSITY; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENTATION; SWIMMING; TORQUE;

EID: 84921511218     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms5829     Document Type: Article

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