https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60098-6
Regular Article
Hot microswimmers
1 Institut für Theoretische Physik, Fakultät für Physik and Geowissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
2 Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli PO, India
3 Institut für Experimentelle Physik I, Fakultät für Physik and Geowissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany
a e-mail: kroy@uni-leipzig.de
b e-mail: chakraborty@iisermohali.ac.in
c e-mail: cichos@uni-leipzig.de
Received: 6 April 2016
Revised: 2 May 2016
Published online: 10 November 2016
Hot microswimmers are self-propelled Brownian particles that exploit local heating for their directed self-thermophoretic motion. We provide a pedagogical overview of the key physical mechanisms underlying this promising new technology. It covers the hydrodynamics of swimming, thermophoresis and -osmosis, hot Brownian motion, force-free steering, and dedicated experimental and simulation tools to analyze hot Brownian swimmers.
© EDP Sciences, Springer-Verlag, 2016
