Acoustic trapping of active matter

Sho C. Takatori; Raf De Dier; Jan Vermant; John F. Brady

doi:10.1038/ncomms10694

Nature Communications (Mar 2016)

Acoustic trapping of active matter

Sho C. Takatori,
Raf De Dier,
Jan Vermant,
John F. Brady

Affiliations

Sho C. Takatori: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology
Raf De Dier: Department of Materials, ETH Zürich
Jan Vermant: Department of Materials, ETH Zürich
John F. Brady: Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Technology

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms10694
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 7, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Active matter, such as swimming bacteria, show unique behaviors under confinement, but it is experimentally challenging to measure them. Takatoriet al. show the use of acoustic tweezers to trap self-propelled Janus particles as an enabling tool to investigate collective motions in living systems.

Published in Nature Communications

ISSN: 2041-1723 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science
Website: https://www.nature.com/ncomms/

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