Since the highly cited paper by Purcell postulating the “Scallop theorem” almost 50 years ago, asymmetry is an unavoidable part of micromotors. It is frequently induced by self-shadowing or self-masking, resulting in so-called Janus colloids. This strategy works very reliably, but turns into a bottleneck once up-scaling becomes important. Herein, existing alternatives are discussed and a novel synthetic pathway yielding active swimmers in a one-pot synthesis is presented. To understand the resulting mobility from a single material, the geometric asymmetry is evaluated using a python based algorithm and this process is automated in an open access tool.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:DRESDEN/oai:qucosa:de:qucosa:89213 |
| Date | 05 March 2024 |
| Creators | Chattopadhyay, Purnesh, Heckel, Sandra, Irigon Pereira, Fabio, Simmchen, Juliane |
| Publisher | Wiley |
| Source Sets | Hochschulschriftenserver (HSSS) der SLUB Dresden |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion, doc-type:article, info:eu-repo/semantics/article, doc-type:Text |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
| Relation | 2640-4567, 2200091, 10.1002/aisy.202200091, info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/Volkswagen Stiftung/Freigeist-Stipendium/91619/ |
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