Minimal numerical ingredients describe chemical microswimmers' 3-D motion.


Journal

Nanoscale
ISSN: 2040-3372
Titre abrégé: Nanoscale
Pays: England
ID NLM: 101525249

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
12 Jan 2024
Historique:
medline: 12 1 2024
pubmed: 12 1 2024
entrez: 12 1 2024
Statut: aheadofprint

Résumé

The underlying mechanisms and physics of catalytic Janus microswimmers is highly complex, requiring details of the associated phoretic fields and the physiochemical properties of catalyst, particle, boundaries, and the fuel used. Therefore, developing a minimal (and more general) model capable of capturing the overall dynamics of these autonomous particles is highly desirable. In the presented work, we demonstrate that a coarse-grained dissipative particle-hydrodynamics model is capable of describing the behaviour of various chemical microswimmer systems. Specifically, we show how a competing balance between hydrodynamic interactions experienced by a squirmer in the presence of a substrate, gravity, and mass and shape asymmetries can reproduce a range of dynamics seen in different experimental systems. We hope that our general model will inspire further synthetic work where various modes of swimmer motion can be encoded

Identifiants

pubmed: 38214073
doi: 10.1039/d3nr03695b
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article

Langues

eng

Sous-ensembles de citation

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Auteurs

Maximilian R Bailey (MR)

Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.
Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. cvaleriani@ucm.es.

C Miguel Barriuso Gutiérrez (CM)

Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. cvaleriani@ucm.es.

José Martín-Roca (J)

Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. cvaleriani@ucm.es.
Departamento de Química Física, Facultad de Química, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain.

Vincent Niggel (V)

Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

Virginia Carrasco-Fadanelli (V)

Department of Physics, Institute of Experimental Colloidal Physics, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Ivo Buttinoni (I)

Department of Physics, Institute of Experimental Colloidal Physics, Heinrich-Heine University, Düsseldorf, Germany.

Ignacio Pagonabarraga (I)

Departament de Física de la Matèria Condensada, Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.
Universitat de Barcelona Institute of Complex Systems (UBICS), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain.

Lucio Isa (L)

Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland.

Chantal Valeriani (C)

Departamento de Estructura de la Materia, Física Térmica y Electrónica, Universidad Complutense de Madrid, Madrid, Spain. cvaleriani@ucm.es.
GISC - Grupo Interdiplinar de Sistemas Complejos, Madrid, Spain.

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