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ArticleThe European physical journal. E, Soft matter2021

Thermotaxis of Janus particles.

Sven Auschra, Andreas Bregulla, Klaus Kroy, Frank Cichos

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Article in The European physical journal. E, Soft matter, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.

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7 citing papers in PubMed.

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  6. Self-thermophoresis of laser-heated spherical Janus particles.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2021
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  7. Editorial: Motile active matter.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2021
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4 authors.

Sven AuschraInstitute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9572-1550
Andreas BregullaPeter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
Klaus KroyInstitute for Theoretical Physics, Leipzig University, 04103, Leipzig, Germany.
Frank CichosPeter Debye Institute for Soft Matter Physics, Leipzig University, 04103, Leipzig, Germany. cichos@uni-leipzig.de.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-9803-4975

Funding

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 237143019Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft 432421051
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The interactions of autonomous microswimmers play an important role for the formation of collective states of motile active matter. We study them in detail for the common microswimmer-design of two-faced Janus spheres with hemispheres made from different materials. Their chemical and physical surface properties may be tailored to fine-tune their mutual attractive, repulsive or aligning behavior. To investigate these effects systematically, we monitor the dynamics of a single gold-capped Janus particle in the external temperature field created by an optically heated metal nanoparticle. We quantify the orientation-dependent repulsion and alignment of the Janus particle and explain it in terms of a simple theoretical model for the induced thermoosmotic surface fluxes. The model reveals that the particle's angular velocity is solely determined by the temperature profile on the equator between the Janus particle's hemispheres and their phoretic mobility contrast. The distortion of the external temperature field by their heterogeneous heat conductivity is moreover shown to break the apparent symmetry of the problem.

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