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
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
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
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