Phoretic Self-Propulsion

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Micro/Nanorobots for Biomedicine: Delivery, Surgery, Sensing, and Detoxification (2017, background): “Chemically-powered motors can propel themselves through aqueous solution by using surface reactions for generating local gradients of concentration, electrical potential, and gas bubbles (9,21,22).”
Microswimming in viscoelastic fluids (2021, methodology): “A squirmer is also the appropriate mathematical model to describe the motion of a self-propelled droplet driven by marangoni stresses [103,104] and autophoretic colloidal particles driven by electrophoresis, diffusiophoresis or thermophoresis, be they externally driven or self-generated [29,105,106]”
Self-Propulsion of Chemically Active Droplets (2022, background): “…storage and actuation of deformable structures, chemically-active swimmers convert chemical energy stored internally or in their environment into interfacial flows along their surface, thus prescribing mechanical stresses on the surrounding fluid to achieve self-propulsion (Moran & Posner 2017).”