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自泳动Janus粒子在燃料贴片源附近的趋化行为

Chemotactic behavior for a self-phoretic Janus particle near a patch source of fuel

Viviana Mancuso, Mihail N. Popescu, William E. Uspal

AI总结:

本文研究Janus粒子在燃料贴片源附近的趋化行为,揭示释放与消耗速率及泳动迁移率对运动的调控,并发现粒子可稳定悬停于贴片上方。

摘要:

许多生物微型游动体具有趋化能力,即它们能感知环境化学梯度并调整其运动机制,以朝向或远离梯度源移动。被赋予趋化行为的合成活性胶体在靶向药物递送以及可编程和可重构材料的实现方面具有可观的前景。本文研究了一种Janus粒子的趋化行为,该粒子将位于平面壁上轴对称化学贴片处释放的“燃料”分子在其催化帽上转化为“产物”分子,并通过产物诱导的自泳动进行运动。趋化行为被表征为燃料释放速率(在贴片处)与消耗速率(在粒子处)之间相互作用的函数,以及粒子泳动响应细节(即其泳动迁移率)的函数。此外,我们发现,在某些条件下,粒子会被吸引到一个稳定的“悬停状态”,在该状态下,其轴垂直于壁面,并在贴片中心上方一个依赖于活性的距离处停留(定位自身)。

英文摘要:

Many biological microswimmers are capable of chemotaxis, i.e., they can sense an ambient chemical gradient and adjust their mechanism of motility to move towards or away from the source of the gradient. Synthetic active colloids endowed with chemotactic behavior hold considerable promise for targeted drug delivery and the realization of programmable and reconfigurable materials. Here we study the chemotactic behavior of a Janus particle, which converts ``fuel'' molecules, released at an axisymmetric chemical patch located on a planar wall, into ``product'' molecules at its catalytic cap and moves by self-phoresis induced by the product. The chemotactic behavior is characterized as a function of the interplay between the rates of release (at the patch) and the consumption (at the particle) of fuel, as well as of details of the phoretic response of the particle (i.e., its phoretic mobility). Among others, we find that, under certain conditions, the particle is attracted to a stable ``hovering state'' in which it aligns its axis normal to the wall and rests (positions itself) at an activity-dependent distance above the center of the patch.

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