A stochastic model for bacteria-driven micro-swimmers

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: A stochastic model for bacteria-driven micro-swimmers
المؤلفون: Eric Lauga, Albane Théry, Christian Esparza Lopez
المساهمون: Lauga, Eric Lauga [0000-0002-8916-2545], Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository
المصدر: Soft Matter
سنة النشر: 2019
مصطلحات موضوعية: Drift velocity, Stochastic modelling, FOS: Physical sciences, 02 engineering and technology, Condensed Matter - Soft Condensed Matter, 010402 general chemistry, 01 natural sciences, Square (algebra), Quantitative Biology::Cell Behavior, Quantitative Biology::Subcellular Processes, Physics - Biological Physics, Physics, cond-mat.soft, Physics::Biological Physics, Dynamics (mechanics), Fluid Dynamics (physics.flu-dyn), Rotational diffusion, General Chemistry, Mechanics, Physics - Fluid Dynamics, 021001 nanoscience & nanotechnology, Condensed Matter Physics, 0104 chemical sciences, Mean squared displacement, physics.flu-dyn, Biological Physics (physics.bio-ph), Brownian dynamics, physics.bio-ph, Soft Condensed Matter (cond-mat.soft), Particle, 0210 nano-technology
الوصف: Experiments have recently shown the feasibility of utilising bacteria as micro-scale robotic devices, with special attention paid to the development of bacteria-driven micro-swimmers taking advantage of built-in actuation and sensing mechanisms of cells. Here we propose a stochastic fluid dynamic model to describe analytically and computationally the dynamics of microscopic particles driven by the motion of surface-attached bacteria undergoing run-and-tumble motion. We compute analytical expressions for the rotational diffusion coefficient, the swimming speed and the effective diffusion coefficient. At short times, the mean squared displacement (MSD) is proportional to the square of the swimming speed, which is independent of the particle size (for fixed density of attached bacteria) and scales linearly with the number of attached bacteria; in contrast, at long times the MSD scales quadratically with the size of the swimmer and is independent of the number of bacteria. We then extend our result to the situation where the surface-attached bacteria undergo chemotaxis within the linear response regime. We demonstrate that bacteria-driven particles are capable of performing artificial chemotaxis, with a chemotactic drift velocity linear in the chemical concentration gradient and independent of the size of the particle. Our results are validated against numerical simulations in the Brownian dynamics limit and will be relevant to the optimal design of micro-swimmers for biomedical applications.
وصف الملف: application/pdf
اللغة: English
URL الوصول: https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::dc4c3c32a7d580e45a06e3e7c6dc61af
http://arxiv.org/abs/1902.04840
Rights: OPEN
رقم الانضمام: edsair.doi.dedup.....dc4c3c32a7d580e45a06e3e7c6dc61af
قاعدة البيانات: OpenAIRE