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Swimming droplets in 1D geometries: an active Bretherton problem

Published:2021 Issue:27 Volume:17 Page:6646-6660
ISSN:1744-683X
Container-title:Soft Matter
language:en
Short-container-title:Soft Matter

Author:

de Blois Charlotte¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Bertin Vincent¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Suda Saori⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰,Ichikawa Masatoshi⁶⁷⁸⁹¹⁰^ORCID,Reyssat Mathilde¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID,Dauchot Olivier¹²³⁴⁵^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. UMR CNRS Gulliver 7083

2. ESPCI Paris

3. PSL Research University

4. 75005 Paris

5. France

6. Department of Physics

7. Graduate School of Science

8. Kyoto University

9. Kitashirakawa-Oiwakecho

10. Sakyo-ku

Abstract

Active droplets in capillaries swim at a speed set by physico-chemistry independent of their confinement, which is confirmed theoretically by an active Bretherton model. They spontaneously divide under strong confinement leaving behind dead droplets.

Funder

Japan Society for the Promotion of Science

Publisher

Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)

Subject

Condensed Matter Physics,General Chemistry

Link

http://pubs.rsc.org/en/content/articlepdf/2021/SM/D1SM00387A

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