Directional mode-locking of driven two-dimensional active magnetized colloids with periodic pinning centers

Xiaodan Li, Cange Wu, Tingting Cao and Yigang Cao

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2019, vol. 515, issue C, 279-287

Abstract: We investigate the directional mode-locking of driven two-dimensional active magnetized colloids on the substrate with periodically distributed point-like pinning centers. The active magnetized colloids are modeled as Janus particles, which interact with each other through repulsive magnetic dipole and attractive electric dipole potentials. The movements of the depinning colloidal particles are found to be locked collectively in some symmetric directions of the substrate pinning potential. As a result, there form directional mode-locking steps in the driving force direction dependence of the average velocity of colloidal particles. The deviations of some colloidal particles from the mode-locking directions are also observed clearly. Our results provide guidance for continuous separation of different kinds of active microscopic particles, including macroscopic molecule and biological cells.

Keywords: Active magnetized colloids; Directional mode-locking (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2018.09.058

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