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LANGMUIR
Volume 27, Issue 20, Pages 12293-12296Publisher
AMER CHEMICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1021/la2033127
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- EPSRC [EP/G04077X/1]
- EPSRC [EP/G04077X/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/G04077X/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Nonconductive Janus particle swimmers made by coating fluorescent polymer beads with hemispheres of platinum have been fully characterized using video microscopy to reveal that they undergo propulsion in hydrogen peroxide fuel away from the catalytic platinum patch. The platinum coating shadows the fluorescence signal from half of each swimmer to allow the orientation to be observed directly and correlated quantitatively with the resulting swimming direction. The observed swimmer direction is consistent with both the bubble release and diffusiophoretic propulsion mechanisms.
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