Collective Behavior of Swimming Bimetallic Motors in Chemical Concentration Gradients.

abstract: Locomotion of microorganisms is commonly observed in nature. Although microorganism locomotion is commonly attributed to mechanical deformation of solid appendages, in 1956 Nobel Laureate Peter Mitchell proposed that an asymmetric ion flux on a bacterium's surface could generate elect...

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Other Authors: Wheat, Philip Matthew (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.8972