Rechargeable self-assembled droplet microswimmers driven by surface phase transitions
@article{Cholakova2021RechargeableSD, title={Rechargeable self-assembled droplet microswimmers driven by surface phase transitions}, author={Diana Cholakova and Maciej Lisicki and Stoyan K. Smoukov and Slavka S. Tcholakova and E Emily Lin and Jianxin Chen and Gabriele De Canio and Eric Lauga and Nikolai Denkov}, journal={Nature Physics}, year={2021} }
1Department of Chemical and Pharmaceutical Engineering, Faculty of Chemistry and Pharmacy, Sofia University, Sofia, Bulgaria. 2Institute of Theoretical Physics, Faculty of Physics, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland. 3Active and Intelligent Materials Lab, School of Engineering and Materials Science, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. 4Department of Applied Chemistry, School of Science, Northwestern Polytechnical University, Xi’an, People’s Republic of China. 5Department of Applied…
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