期刊
APPLIED PHYSICS LETTERS
卷 93, 期 22, 页码 -出版社
AMER INST PHYSICS
DOI: 10.1063/1.3040318
关键词
biological techniques; cellular biophysics; microorganisms; molecular biophysics; plasma materials processing; stochastic processes
资金
- National Science Foundation [IIS-071335]
Flagellated chemotactic bacteria have been utilized as actuators for propulsion of polystyrene microbeads by randomly attaching several bacteria on their surface. In this work, a plasma-based bacteria patterning technique is developed and used to limit bacteria attachment to approximately half of the microbead's surface. Consequently, the effect of quantity and configuration of the attached bacteria on propulsion speed is studied experimentally. It is shown that the correlation between the propulsion speed and the number of bacteria is a strong function of the configuration of the bacteria and it follows one of the two distinct trends quantified by the proposed stochastic model.
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