Can the self-propulsion of anisotropic microswimmers be described by using forces and torques?

Journal of Physics Condensed Matter

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2015, Pages

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

^a HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

^e MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS   (Germany)

Author keywords

active colloids; anisotropic microswimmers; self propelled particles

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; BROWNIAN MOVEMENT; COLLOIDS; EQUATIONS OF MOTION; PROPULSION;

ANISOTROPIC MICROSWIMMERS; COLLOIDAL PARTICLE; DIFFUSIOPHORESIS; EFFECTIVE FORCES; FORCE AND TORQUES; FORCES AND TORQUES; RESISTANCE MATRIX; SELF-PROPELLED PARTICLES;

TORQUE;

EID: 84928682957     PISSN: 09538984     EISSN: 1361648X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0953-8984/27/19/194110     Document Type: Conference Paper

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