Boundary effects on the motion of active colloids

guillefix 4th November 2016 at 2:43pm

Boundaries can steer active Janus spheres. Looks at Catalytic conductor-insulator Janus swimmers. Note that the method of mirror images used in the paper for estimating effects of some rotational diffusion quenching mechanisms is not the same as used for electrostatic charges near a conductor. It is in fact an instance of the method of mirror images, as applied to Diffusion equations, where the image is used to satisfy the no-slip boundary condition in the current JJ of ions. As the current satisfies J=σEJ=\sigma E from Ohm's law, the effect on currents should have an accompanying effect on the Electric field.