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In Conversation: The American Feminist Art Movement & its Impact on Contemporary Art
Join us for in-conversation event between Professor Judith K. Brodsky and Dr. Ferris Olin chaired by Marjorie W. Martay at Murray Edwards College.
G I Taylor Lecture - Using light to orchestrate the assembly of self-propelled particles into microfluidic devices
Mon 30 January 2017
Department of Chemistry
The G I Taylor Lecture by Professor Michael Cates FRS FRSE, Lucasian Professor of Mathematics, of the Department of Applied Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, University of Cambridge.
The first talk in a series of lectures organised by the Cambridge Philosophical Society in the Lent Term 2017.
Abstract: Many recent experiments address synthetic colloidal particles capable of self-propulsion in the presence of a fuel supply. Unlike passive Brownian motion which it superficially resembles, their active motion breaks time-reversal symmetry. This allows unusual physics to arise, such as a liquid-gas phase separation among particles with purely repulsive interactions. In several systems, the self-propulsion effect can be switched on and off using a light field. I will discuss how these elements might one day be harnessed to create self-rectifying microfluidic devices under optical control, and present ‘proof of concept’ simulations of the basic effect.
Cost: Free
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