Synchronized locomotion of freely suspended disjoint microbeads pairs

S. Bhat; T. P. Kurzweg; A. Guez; G. Friedman

doi:10.1063/1.3132582

Synchronized locomotion of freely suspended disjoint microbeads pairs

S. Bhat, T. P. Kurzweg, A. Guez, G. Friedman

School of Engineering (Behrend)

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The possibility of locomotion of a pair of disjoint spherical microbeads suspended in fluid is investigated experimentally. The beads interact magnetically and their nonreciprocal relative movements are coordinated using external uniform magnetic field. Locomotion is studied and demonstrated for cyclic swirling movements of the beads which mimics behavior often observed in bacterial swarms.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	224105
Journal	Applied Physics Letters
Volume	94
Issue number	22
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1063/1.3132582
State	Published - 2009

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Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)

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