Researchers in the Soft Materials group have designed and modeled self-propelled microswimmers that can instantaneously reverse their propulsion direction. The use of directionally controlled particles could enable new strategies to design materials, as fussion and fisson event can now be controlled. The work in collaboration with a group at Cambridge University was published in Nature communications.
Hanumantha Rao Vutukuri, Maciej Lisicki, Eric Lauga, Jan Vermant. Light-switchable propulsion of active particles with reversible interactions. Nat Commun 11, 2628 (2020). DOI:10.1038/s41467-020-15764-1
Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge, UK
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