Particle diffusion in a quasi-two-dimensional bacterial bath.
By Xiao-lun Wu, A. Libchaber. Physical Review Letters, 2000
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Subfields: Biomedical Engineering, Condensed Matter Physics, Molecular Biology
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In Condensed Matter Physics
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- Active suspensions and their nonlinear models (2013, background): “On the former, experiments on suspensions of swimming bacteria such as Escherichia coli or Bacillus subtilis have shown striking dynamics [4] [5] [6] [7].”
- The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms (2008, background): “In a pioneering experiment, suspensions of swimming bacteria were seen to provide an effective high-temperature thermal bath for suspended inert particles [176].”
- A micrometre-sized heat engine operating between bacterial reservoirs (2016, background): “It was recently shown that a colloidal particle diffusing in an active bath in the absence of any confining potential shows super-diffusive behavior for times smaller than a characteristic time, τc [23, 24].”
- Bacterial hydrodynamics (2015, background): “Enhanced diffusion by swimming bacteria was first reported experimentally for flagellated E. coli cells with non-Brownian particles (Wu & Libchaber, 2000), followed by work on molecular dyes (Kim & Breuer, 2004).”
- Active Brownian particles (2012, background): “This complicated behavior of the mean squared displacement can be an explanation for experimental observations of superdiffusive motion of active particles [365,81]: several crossovers and averaging over nonidentical active particles may lead to observations of mean squared displacements, which appe”
- Particle image velocimetry experiments on a macro-scale model for bacterial flagellar bundling (2004, background): “The random motion of the cells may be exploited: it has recently been shown that a suspension of motile bacteria enhances fluid mixing in films (Wu and Libchaber 2000) and microchannels (Kim and Breuer 2004).”
- Fluid dynamics of self-propelled microorganisms, from individuals to concentrated populations (2007, background): “Likewise, such phenomena can be seen in concentrated bacterial populations trapped in suspended thin aqueous films (Wu and Libchaber 2000; Sokolov et al. 2007).”