Catalytic Swimming Devices
Catalytic Swimming Devices
- Event time: 1:00pm
- Event date: 4th October 2012
- Speaker: Stephen Ebbens (University of Sheffield)
- Location: Room 2511, James Clerk Maxwell Building (JCMB) James Clerk Maxwell Building Peter Guthrie Tait Road Edinburgh EH9 3FD GB
Event details
Small scale catalytic swimming devices have the potential to enable futuristic applications such as targeted drug delivery and repair within the body. One of the key challenges to move towards these applications is to achieve control over their trajectories. I will describe how the rotational behavior for swimming devices can be modified and controlled to achieve this goal. In addition I will discuss the scaling of transport properties with device size, and the potential to exploit these variations to allow autonomous navigation in analogy to the "run and tumbling" strategy used by bacteria.
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