RT Journal Article
T1 Minimal numerical ingredients describe chemical microswimmers’ 3-D motion
A1 Bailey, Maximilian R.
A1 Barriuso Gutiérrez, Carlos Miguel
A1 Martín Roca, José
A1 Niggel, Vincent
A1 Carrasco-Fadanelli, Virginia
A1 Buttinoni, Ivo
A1 Pagonabarraga, Ignacio
A1 Isa, Lucio
A1 Valeriani, Chantal
AB 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 via shape and mass during fabrication, helping to realise the still outstanding goal of microswimmers capable of complex 3-D behaviour.
PB Royal Society of Chemistry
SN 2040-3364
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134271
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/134271
LA eng
NO Bailey, M. R., Gutiérrez, C. M. B., Martín-Roca, J., Niggel, V., Carrasco-Fadanelli, V., Buttinoni, I., ... & Valeriani, C. (2024). Minimal numerical ingredients describe chemical microswimmers’3-D motion. Nanoscale, 16(5), 2444-2451.
NO Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades (España)
NO Agencia Estatal de Investigación (España)
NO European Commission
NO Generalitat de Catalunya
NO Ministerio de Economía, Comercio y Empresa (España)
DS Docta Complutense
RD 15 abr 2026