Boundaries can steer active Janus spheres

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Das, Sambeeta ^a   Garg, Astha ^b   Campbell, Andrew I ^c   Howse, Jonathan ^c   Sen, Ayusman ^a   Velegol, Darrell ^b   Golestanian, Ramin ^d   Ebbens, Stephen J ^c  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b The Pennsylvania State University   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BROWNIAN MOTION; CATALYSIS; COLLOID; GEOMETRY; HYDRODYNAMICS; MACHINERY; NANOPARTICLE; PARTICLE MOTION; SPHERE; TRAJECTORY;

BULLOCK; CATALYSIS; COLLOID; HYDRODYNAMICS; ROTATION;

EID: 84948808373     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms9999     Document Type: Article

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