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Self-propelled particles exhibit interesting behavior when approaching boundaries or obstacles, which has been drawn a lot of attention due to its potential applications in areas of cargo delivery, sensing and environmental remediation. However, our understanding on the mechanism of how they interact with boundaries or obstacles is still limited. Here, using video particle-tracking microscopy, we experimentally studied the dynamics of self-propelled Janus microsphere driven by H2O2 near obstacles. The Janus particles used are sulfuric polystyrene (PS) microspheres (hydrodynamic diameter is 3.2 μm) with only half surface being sputter-coated with a five-micron-thick platinum layer. Two different types of obstacles are used. One is cylindrical post and the other is PS microsphere. To understand the size effect of obstacles, cylindrical posts with three different diameters (3 μm, 10 μm and 20 μm), and PS microspheres with four different diameters (1.0 μm, 1.8 μm, 2.4 μm and 7.2 μm) are tested, respectively. The results show that when obstacles are larger than a critical size, the self-propelled Janus microspheres will be captured and orbit around them. The retention time and the orbiting speed of the Janus particles increase with the concentration of H2O2, as well as with the diameter of obstacles no matter whether cylindrical posts or PS microspheres are used as obstacles. However, we found that under the same concentration of H2O2, compared with the case of PS microspheres as obstacles, when Janus particles orbit around cylindrical posts, the retention time is larger and the average speed is smaller. These results indicate that the self-propelled behavior of Janus particles near obstacles is closely dependent on the geometrical properties of obstacles. Our results of Janus spheres are different from earlier work on Au-Pt Janus rods [Takagi D, Palacci J, Braunschweig A B, Shelley M J, Zhang J 2014 Soft Matter 10 1784]. By comparing the speed of Janus particles before and after they are captured by spherical obstacles, for our case, the speed of Janus spheres is reduced, while for the case of Au-Pt rods, the speed of Au-Pt rods doesn’t change much. Such discrepancies may originate from different driven mechanisms in these two systems (electropheoresis mechanism for Au-Pt micro-rods and diffusiophoresis mechanism for PS-Pt Janus microspheres), which are then resulted in different flow fields and different distributions of catalytic solutions. But to test this hypothesis, further work is needed. Our study provides us a better understanding on the dynamic behavior of self-propelled particles near obstacles, which will be helpful for applications in, for example, designing micro-structures to guide the motion of self-propelled particles.
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Keywords:
- self-propelled /
- Janus microsphere /
- confinement /
- obstacles
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图 1 Janus微球的扫描电子显微图像
Figure 1. SEM image of Janus microspheres.
图 2 自驱动的Janus微球358 s内在具有圆柱形障碍物(用红色箭头指示)的盖玻片上运动的轨迹示例
Figure 2. Examples of trajectories of Janus particles when cylindrical posts (as indicated by red arrow) are used as obstacles. The time period of the shown trajectories is 358 s
图 3 自驱动的Janus微球在不同双氧水浓度的条件下, 绕不同直径的圆柱公转的(a)停留时间及(b)运动速率
Figure 3. (a) The retention time and (b) average speed of self-propelled Janus spheres when they are orbiting around cylindrical posts with different diameter at different concentrations of H2O2. The results are obtained by averaging over 30−50 trajectories, and the error bars stand for standard errors.
图 4 自驱动的Janus微球在具有PS球(圆形暗斑, 如红色箭头所示)作为障碍物的盖玻片上运动的轨迹举例, PS球的粒径分别为(a) 1 μm, (b) 1.8 μm, (c) 2.4 μm, (d) 7.2 μm
Figure 4. Examples of trajectories of Janus particles when polystyrene spheres (as indicated by red arrow) are used as obstacles. Diameters of used polystyrene spheres are (a) 1 μm, (b) 1.8 μm, (c) 2.4 μm, (d) 7.2 μm.
图 5 自驱动的Janus微球被不同粒径的PS微球所“捕获”的概率与双氧水浓度的关系
Figure 5. The probability of the self-propelled Janus trapped by polystyrene microspheres with different diameter as a function of the concentration of H2O2.
图 6 自驱动的Janus微球在不同双氧水浓度的条件下, 在不同粒径的PS微球边缘的(a)停留时间及(b)运动速率
Figure 6. (a) The retention time and (b) average speed of self-propelled Janus microspheres on polystyrene microspheres with different diameter as a function of the concentration of H2O2. The results are obtained by averaging over 30−50 trajectories, and the error bars stand for standard errors.
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[1] Howse J R, Jones R A L, Ryan A J, Gough T, Vafabakhsh R, Golestanian R 2007 Phys. Rev. Lett. 99 048102
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Google Scholar
[22] Spagnolie S E, Moreno-Flores G R, Bartolo D, Lauga E 2015 Soft Matter 11 3396
Google Scholar
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