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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 79: Microswimmers, Active Liquids II (joint session CPP, BP, DY)

CPP 79.5: Vortrag

Freitag, 20. März 2015, 10:45–11:00, C 264

Reorientation of passive Janus type swimmer in an external temperature profile — •Andreas Bregulla and Frank Cichos — University of Leipzig, department for experimental physics, leipzig, germany

Swimming on the micrometer length scale is dominated by omnipresent Brownian fluctuations and overwhelming viscous forces. Self-phoretic swimmers are an example how to overcome those limitations. Most of those particles are driven by phoretic surface flows generated by surface gradients. In the last decade many different phoretic swimming mechanisms have been proposed. When such self-propelled objects are starting to interact at higher densities, coherent collective motions are observed in which the swimmers align and form flocks, swarms or other complicated patterns. About the origin and details of these complex interactions only little is known. The lack of understanding is mostly due to the lack of control of such particles. Here we want to present a method which extends the existing photon nudging algorithm to gather and collect a specific number of particles and study their interactions. The interactions themselves can be mediated through many different aspects like charges, flow fields or through external profiles created by each active swimmer. The last mentioned interaction will be discussed in detail. An immobile gold colloid acts as an external heat source and mimics the temperature profile that an active swimmer would create in its surrounding. The motion of a passive Janus particle in this temperature field is investigated and the relative motion and alignment with respect to the heat source is quantified.