Propulsion of a two-sphere swimmer
- Submitting institution
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Nottingham Trent University
- Unit of assessment
- 12 - Engineering
- Output identifier
- 71 - 703098
- Type
- D - Journal article
- DOI
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10.1103/physrevlett.115.248102
- Title of journal
- Physical Review Letters
- Article number
- 248102
- First page
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- Volume
- 115
- Issue
- 24
- ISSN
- 0031-9007
- Open access status
- Out of scope for open access requirements
- Month of publication
- December
- Year of publication
- 2015
- URL
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- Supplementary information
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
- No
- COVID-19 affected output statement
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
- No
- Number of additional authors
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4
- Research group(s)
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A - Imaging, Materials and Engineering Centre
- Proposed double-weighted
- No
- Reserve for an output with double weighting
- No
- Additional information
- Our description of an unpowered mechanical swimmer led to an NSF grant (DMR-1753148, $200k) for a PhD studentship at the University of North Carolina and further publications in Physical Review Fluids (doi:10.1103/PhysRevFluids.4.021101) and Soft Matter (doi:10.1039/C9SM01019J). Presented at three APS March Meetings, the Active & Smart Matter conference and an invited seminar at the Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organisation, the work developed into a 2-year research position funded by the DFG Priority Programme SPP1726:“Microswimmers” and was featured in Physics Today (https://physicstoday.scitation.org/do/10.1063/PT.5.7225/full/) and on the YouTube channel Sixty Symbols, gathering 89k views (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJ6KRrEda-Y&feature=youtu.be).
- Author contribution statement
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- Non-English
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- English abstract
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