Unstable fronts and motile structures formed by microrollers
Abstract
Collections of rolling colloids are shown to pinch off into motile clusters resembling droplets sliding down a windshield. These stable dynamic structures are formed through a fingering instability that relies on hydrodynamic interactions alone.
- Publication:
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Nature Physics
- Pub Date:
- April 2017
- DOI:
- 10.1038/nphys3970
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1609.08673
- Bibcode:
- 2017NatPh..13..375D
- Keywords:
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- Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter;
- Physics - Fluid Dynamics
- E-Print:
- doi:10.1038/nphys3970