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All Authors: Mingcheng Yang, Marisol Ripoll



Title: Self-propelled thermophoretic microgear





General description: 



Example relization of two simulated hot microgears with rotation in

opposite directions accompanied by thermal fluctuations.  The gear and

wall temperatures are respectively fixed as T_g = 1.5 and T_w = 0.5 in

simulation units. The thermophilic and thermophobic microgears are 
respectively simulated by considering repulsive (n = 3, c = \epsilon) and 
attractive (n = 6, c = 0) Lennard Jones type of interactions, between the 
beads of the gear and the surrounding solvent.



Description 1: c3sm52417e.mpg



Thermophilic hot microgear displaying a forward motion, which is

clockwise with this geometry.



Description 2: c3sm52417e_2.mpg



Thermophobic hot microgear displaying a backwards motion, which is

anti-clockwise with this geometry.



Contact information:



Dr. Mingcheng Yang

Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and

Key Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, 

Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China



Email: mcyang@iphy.ac.cn       



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