Spontaneous motion of a passive fluid droplet in an active microchannel
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We numerically study the dynamics of a passive fluid droplet confined within microchannel whose walls are covered with thin layer active gel. The latter represents fluid...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Soft Matter
سال: 2023
ISSN: ['1744-683X', '1744-6848']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1039/d3sm00561e