Steering a thermally activated micromotor with a nearby isothermal wall

Near-wall hydrodynamic slip triggers swimming state transition of micro-organisms

(2020) Antarip Poddar et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Exact Phoretic Interaction of Two Chemically Active Particles

(2020) Babak Nasouri et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Non-Faradaic Electric Currents in the Nernst-Planck Equations and Nonlocal Diffusiophoresis of Suspended Colloids in Crossed Salt Gradients

(2020) Patrick B. Warren   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Activated micromotor propulsion by enzyme catalysis in a biofluid medium

(2019) Antarip Poddar et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Electrical switching of a surfactant coated drop in Poiseuille flow

(2019) Antarip Poddar et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

On-Chip Concentration and Patterning of Biological Cells Using Interplay of Electrical and Thermal Fields

(2019) Golak Kunti et al.   ANALYTICAL CHEMISTRY

Colloid Separation by CO2-Induced Diffusiophoresis

(2019) Trevor J. Shimokusu et al.   LANGMUIR

Light-Guided Nanomotor Systems for Autonomous Photothermal Cancer Therapy

(2018) Hyunsik Choi et al.   ACS Applied Materials & Interfaces

Thermophoretically driven capillary transport of nanofluid in a microchannel

(2018) Soumya Bandyopadhyay et al.   ADVANCED POWDER TECHNOLOGY

Electro-thermally driven transport of a non-conducting fluid in a two-layer system for MEMS and biomedical applications

(2018) Golak Kunti et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED PHYSICS

Sedimentation of a surfactant-laden drop under the influence of an electric field

(2018) Antarip Poddar et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Dynamics of a colloidal particle near a thermoosmotic wall under illumination

(2018) Xin Lou et al.   Soft Matter

Electrically Enhanced Self-Thermophoresis of Laser-Heated Janus Particles under a Rotating Electric Field

(2018) Yu-Liang Chen et al.   Scientific Reports

Thermally modulated cross-stream migration of a surfactant-laden deformable drop in a Poiseuille flow

(2018) Sayan Das et al.   Physical Review Fluids

Migration of a surfactant-laden droplet in non-isothermal Poiseuille flow

(2017) Sayan Das et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Hot microswimmers

(2016) Klaus Kroy et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

How walls affect the dynamics of self-phoretic microswimmers

(2016) Y. Ibrahim et al.   European Physical Journal-Special Topics

Guiding Catalytically Active Particles with Chemically Patterned Surfaces

(2016) W. E. Uspal et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Self-diffusiophoretic colloidal propulsion near a solid boundary

(2016) Ali Mozaffari et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Topographical pathways guide chemical microswimmers

(2016) Juliane Simmchen et al.   Nature Communications

Phototaxis of synthetic microswimmers in optical landscapes

(2016) Celia Lozano et al.   Nature Communications

Exploiting Optical Asymmetry for Controlled Guiding of Particles with Light

(2016) Ognjen Ilic et al.   ACS Photonics

Micro and nanomotors in diagnostics

(2015) Andrzej Chałupniak et al.   ADVANCED DRUG DELIVERY REVIEWS

Locomotion of chemically powered autonomous nanowire motors

(2015) Lin Wang et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

Squirming through shear-thinning fluids

(2015) Charu Datt et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Scaling regimes of thermocapillarity-driven dynamics of confined long bubbles: Effects of disjoining pressure

(2015) Kaustav Chaudhury et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Rheotaxis of spherical active particles near a planar wall

(2015) W. E. Uspal et al.   Soft Matter

Self-propulsion of a catalytically active particle near a planar wall: from reflection to sliding and hovering

(2015) W. E. Uspal et al.   Soft Matter

Boundaries can steer active Janus spheres

(2015) Sambeeta Das et al.   Nature Communications

Water-Driven Micromotors for Rapid Photocatalytic Degradation of Biological and Chemical Warfare Agents

(2014) Jinxing Li et al.   ACS Nano

Stochastic Localization of Microswimmers by Photon Nudging

(2014) Andreas P. Bregulla et al.   ACS Nano

Hydrodynamic interaction of microswimmers near a wall

(2014) Gao-Jin Li et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Swimming by reciprocal motion at low Reynolds number

(2014) Tian Qiu et al.   Nature Communications

Wall effects on self-diffusiophoretic Janus particles: a theoretical study

(2013) Darren G. Crowdy   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Squirmer dynamics near a boundary

(2013) Kenta Ishimoto et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Flow pattern in the vicinity of self-propelling hot Janus particles

(2013) Thomas Bickel et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW E

Physics of rheologically enhanced propulsion: Different strokes in generalized Stokes

(2013) Thomas D. Montenegro-Johnson et al.   PHYSICS OF FLUIDS

Harnessing thermal fluctuations for purposeful activities: the manipulation of single micro-swimmers by adaptive photon nudging

(2013) Bian Qian et al.   Chemical Science

Nano/Microscale Motors: Biomedical Opportunities and Challenges

(2012) Joseph Wang et al.   ACS Nano

Fuel-Free Locomotion of Janus Motors: Magnetically Induced Thermophoresis

(2012) Larysa Baraban et al.   ACS Nano

Fabrication, properties and applications of Janus particles

(2012) Jing Hu et al.   CHEMICAL SOCIETY REVIEWS

Hydrodynamics of self-propulsion near a boundary: predictions and accuracy of far-field approximations

(2012) Saverio E. Spagnolie et al.   JOURNAL OF FLUID MECHANICS

Active Motion of a Janus Particle by Self-Thermophoresis in a Defocused Laser Beam

(2010) Hong-Ren Jiang et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Thermal non-equilibrium transport in colloids

(2010) Alois Würger   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Autonomously motile catalytic nanomotors by bubble propulsion

(2009) J. G. Gibbs et al.   APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS

The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms

(2009) Eric Lauga et al.   REPORTS ON PROGRESS IN PHYSICS

Observation of Slip Flow in Thermophoresis

(2008) Franz M. Weinert et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS

Does Thermophoretic Mobility Depend on Particle Size?

(2008) Marco Braibanti et al.   PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS