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The influence of frequency and gravity on the orientation of active metallo-dielectric Janus particles translating under a uniform applied alternating-current electric field

Published:2024 Issue:20 Volume:20 Page:4143-4151
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

Boymelgreen Alicia¹^ORCID,Kunti Golak²³,García-Sánchez Pablo⁴^ORCID,Yossifon Gilad⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Mechanical and Materials Engineering, Florida International University, Miami, Florida, 33174, USA

2. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Delhi, New Delhi, 110016, India

3. Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, Technion City, Haifa, 3200003, Israel

4. Departamento de Electrónica y Electromagnetismo, Facultad de Física, Universidad de Sevilla, Avda. Reina Mercedes, Sevilla, Spain

5. School of Mechanical Engineering, Tel Aviv University, Ramat Aviv 6997801, Israel

Abstract

Equilibrium particle orientation (α) is obtained by setting the summation of gravitational (g), electrohydrodynamic (h) and electrostatic (e) torques to zero. The orientation is found to be a function of frequency and voltage of the applied field.

Funder

Israel Science Foundation

Division of Chemical, Bioengineering, Environmental, and Transport Systems

European Regional Development Fund

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2024/SM/D3SM01640D

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