Paladin is an upgrade of the 1960s-era M109-series howitzer. While the vehicle includes a new turret, many components—such as the chassis, its automotive capability, and the level of protection it affords—are fundamentally the same as in the earlier versions of the M109. Today the technologies that Paladin helped pioneer are becoming increasingly common on more modern and capable selfpropelled ...

In dieser Arbeit untersuche ich die wesentlichen Eigen-schaften biologischer und künstlicher aktiver Systeme undstelle eine neue Technik zur Herstellung von selbstgetriebe-nen mikroskopischen Kolloiden vor. Um den Antrieb zuerhalten nutzen wir phoretische Kräfte, welche ins Spielkommen, wenn ein Janus-Teilchen seine Umgebung asym-metrisch verändert. Erheblicher experimen...

We have proposed a method for the dynamic simulation of a collection of self-propelled particles in a viscous Newtonian fluid. We restrict attention to particles whose size and velocity are small enough that the fluid motion is in the creeping flow regime. We have proposed a simple model for a self-propelled particle, and extended the Stokesian Dynamics method to conduct dynamic simulations of ...

We study a biologically inspired, inherently non-equilibrium model consisting of self-propelled particles. In the model, particles move on a plane with a velocity of constant magnitude; they locally interact with their neighbours by choosing at each timestep a velocity direction equal to the average direction of their neighbours. Thus, in the limit of vanishing velocities the model becomes anal...

Many motile microorganisms adjust their swimming motion relative to the gravitational field and thus counteract sedimentation to the ground. This gravitactic behaviour is often the result of an inhomogeneous mass distribution, which aligns the microorganism similar to a buoy. However, it has been suggested that gravitaxis can also result from a geometric fore-rear asymmetry, typical for many se...

Motivated by recent simulations and by experiments on aggregation of gliding bacteria, we study a model of the collective dynamics of self-propelled hard rods on a substrate in two dimensions. The rods have finite size, interact via excluded volume, and their dynamics is overdamped by the interaction with the substrate. Starting from a microscopic model with nonthermal noise sources, a continuu...

We describe the use of catalytically self-propelled microjets (dubbed micromotors) for degrading organic pollutants in water via the Fenton oxidation process. The tubular micromotors are composed of rolled-up functional nanomembranes consisting of Fe/Pt bilayers. The micromotors contain double functionality within their architecture, i.e., the inner Pt for the self-propulsion and the outer Fe f...

Overdamped Brownian motion of a self-propelled particle is studied by solving the Langevin equation analytically. On top of translational and rotational diffusion, in the context of the presented model, the 'active' particle is driven along its internal orientation axis. We calculate the first four moments of the probability distribution function for displacements as a function of time for a sp...

Xiaopeng Qu, Jonathan B. Boreyko, Fangjie Liu, Rebecca L. Agapov, Nickolay V. Lavrik, Scott T. Retterer, James J. Feng, C. Patrick Collier, and Chuan-Hua Chen Department of Mechanical Engineering and Materials Science, Duke University, Durham, North Carolina 27708, USA Center for Nanophase Materials Sciences, Oak Ridge National Laboratory, Oak Ridge, Tennessee 37831, USA Bredesen Center for Int...

In conventional dropwise condensation on a hydrophobic surface, the condensate drops must be removed by external forces for continuous operation. This Letter reports continuous dropwise condensation spontaneously occurring on a superhydrophobic surface without any external forces. The spontaneous drop removal results from the surface energy released upon drop coalescence, which leads to a surpr...