Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids

Antoine Bricard, Jean-Baptiste Caussin, Nicolas Desreumaux, Olivier Dauchot and Denis Bartolo ()
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Antoine Bricard: PMMH, CNRS UMR7636, ESPCI-ParisTech, Université Paris Diderot and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
Jean-Baptiste Caussin: PMMH, CNRS UMR7636, ESPCI-ParisTech, Université Paris Diderot and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
Nicolas Desreumaux: PMMH, CNRS UMR7636, ESPCI-ParisTech, Université Paris Diderot and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
Olivier Dauchot: EC2M, CNRS UMR7083 Gulliver, ESPCI-ParisTech, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France
Denis Bartolo: PMMH, CNRS UMR7636, ESPCI-ParisTech, Université Paris Diderot and Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 10 rue Vauquelin, 75005 Paris, France

Nature, 2013, vol. 503, issue 7474, 95-98

Abstract: Populations of millions of colloidal rolling particles are shown to self-organize to achieve coherent motion; comparison between experiment and theory based on the microscopic interactions between these ‘rollers’ suggests that hydrodynamic interactions promote the emergence of the collective motion.

Date: 2013
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