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ArticleNature communications2019

Dynamics-dependent density distribution in active suspensions.

Jochen Arlt, Vincent A Martinez, Angela Dawson, Teuta Pilizota, Wilson C K Poon

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Article in Nature communications, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.

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3 · Its place in the literature

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9 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Active interface bulging inProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024
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  4. Spatial Patterning of Micromotor Aggregation and Flux.ChemNanoMat : chemistry of nanomaterials for energy, biology and more · 2023
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  7. Photo-bioconvection: towards light control of flows in active suspensions.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2020
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  8. A combined rheometry and imaging study of viscosity reduction in bacterial suspensions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2020
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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Jochen ArltSchool of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK. j.arlt@ed.ac.uk.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-4152-5896
Vincent A MartinezSchool of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2395-5929
Angela DawsonSchool of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK.
Teuta PilizotaSchool of Biological Sciences and Centre for Synthetic and Systems Biology, The University of Edinburgh, Alexander Crum Brown Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FF, UK.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-2156-0221
Wilson C K PoonSchool of Physics & Astronomy, The University of Edinburgh, Peter Guthrie Tait Road, Edinburgh, EH9 3FD, UK.

Funding

EC | EC Seventh Framework Programm | FP7 Ideas: European Research Council (FP7-IDEAS-ERC - Specific Programme: "Ideas" Implementing the Seventh Framework Programme of the European Community for Research, Technological Development and Demonstration Activities (2007 to 2013)) 340877 PHYSAPSRCUK | Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) EP/J007404/1
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Self-propelled colloids constitute an important class of intrinsically non-equilibrium matter. Typically, such a particle moves ballistically at short times, but eventually changes its orientation, and displays random-walk behaviour in the long-time limit. Theory predicts that if the velocity of non-interacting swimmers varies spatially in 1D, v(x), then their density ρ(x) satisfies ρ(x) = ρ(0)v(0)/v(x), where x = 0 is an arbitrary reference point. Such a dependence of steady-state ρ(x) on the particle dynamics, which was the qualitative basis of recent work demonstrating how to 'paint' with bacteria, is forbidden in thermal equilibrium. Here we verify this prediction quantitatively by constructing bacteria that swim with an intensity-dependent speed when illuminated and implementing spatially-resolved differential dynamic microscopy (sDDM) for quantitative analysis over millimeter length scales. Applying a spatial light pattern therefore creates a speed profile, along which we find that, indeed, ρ(x)v(x) = constant, provided that steady state is reached.

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PMID31127122
PMCPMC6534614

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