Tag Archives: magnetism
Self-assembled microswimmers
Locomotion at low Reynolds number is a key physical mechanism [1] for microscopic living organisms, but has lots of technological applications like nanomachines and microrobots [2]. Our last paper [3] proposes a tricky experiment for generating low Reynolds swimming of … Continue reading
Magnetic Cheerios Effect
When particles are suspended at the air-liquid interface, the deformation of the later implies attractive interactions. This is called the “Cheerios effect“, a reference to clumping of cereals in a breakfast bowl. In our last paper published in Phys. Rev. … Continue reading
