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Ning L, Lou X, Ma Q, Yang Y, Luo N, Chen K, Meng F, Zhou X, Yang M, Peng Y. Hydrodynamics-Induced Long-Range Attraction between Plates in Bacterial Suspensions. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 131:158301. [PMID: 37897752 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.158301] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/30/2023] [Accepted: 08/23/2023] [Indexed: 10/30/2023]
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We perform optical-tweezers experiments and mesoscale fluid simulations to study the effective interactions between two parallel plates immersed in bacterial suspensions. The plates are found to experience a long-range attraction, which increases linearly with bacterial density and decreases with plate separation. The higher bacterial density and orientation order between plates observed in the experiments imply that the long-range effective attraction mainly arises from the bacterial flow field, instead of the direct bacterium-plate collisions, which is confirmed by the simulations. Furthermore, the hydrodynamic contribution is inversely proportional to the squared interplate separation in the far field. Our findings highlight the importance of hydrodynamics on the effective forces between passive objects in active baths, providing new possibilities to control activity-directed assembly.
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- Luhui Ning
- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325001, China
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- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325001, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- CAS Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325001, China
- CAS Key Laboratory for Theoretical Physics, Institute of Theoretical Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
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- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Wenzhou Institute, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Wenzhou, Zhejiang 325001, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
- Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory, Dongguan, Guangdong 523808, China
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- Beijing National Laboratory for Condensed Matter Physics and Laboratory of Soft Matter Physics, Institute of Physics, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100190, China
- School of Physical Sciences, University of Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100049, China
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Elius M, Boyle K, Chang WS, Moisander PH, Ling H. Comparison of three-dimensional motion of bacteria with and without wall accumulation. Phys Rev E 2023; 108:014409. [PMID: 37583224 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.108.014409] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/13/2023] [Accepted: 07/01/2023] [Indexed: 08/17/2023]
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A comparison of the movement characteristics between bacteria with and without wall accumulation could potentially elucidate the mechanisms of biofilm formation. However, authors of previous studies have mostly focused on the motion of bacteria that exhibit wall accumulation. Here, we applied digital holographic microscopy to compare the three-dimensional (3D) motions of two bacterial strains (Shewanella japonica UMDC19 and Shewanella sp. UMDC1): one exhibiting higher concentrations near the solid surfaces, and the other showing similar concentrations in near-wall and bulk regions. We found that the movement characteristics of the two strains are similar in the near-wall region but are distinct in the bulk region. Near the wall, both strains have small velocities and mostly perform subdiffusive motions. In the bulk, however, the bacteria exhibiting wall accumulation have significantly higher motility (including faster swimming speeds and longer movement trajectories) than the one showing no wall accumulation. Furthermore, we found that bacteria exhibiting wall accumulation slowly migrate from the bulk region to the near-wall region, and the hydrodynamic effect alone is insufficient to generate this migration speed. Future studies are required to test if the current findings apply to other bacterial species and strains.
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- Md Elius
- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA
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- Department of Chemistry & Biochemistry, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA
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- Department of Biology, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA
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- Department of Mechanical Engineering, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, Dartmouth, Massachusetts 02747, USA
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Villa S, Larobina D, Stocco A, Blanc C, Villone MM, D'Avino G, Nobili M. Dynamics of prolate spheroids in the vicinity of an air-water interface. SOFT MATTER 2023; 19:2646-2653. [PMID: 36967649 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01665f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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In this article, we present the mobilities of prolate ellipsoidal micrometric particles close to an air-water interface measured by dual wave reflection interference microscopy. Particle's position and orientation with respect to the interface are simultaneously measured as a function of time. From the measured mean square displacement, five particle mobilities (3 translational and 2 rotational) and two translational-rotational cross-correlations are extracted. The fluid dynamics governing equations are solved by the finite element method to numerically evaluate the same mobilities, imposing either slip and no-slip boundary conditions to the flow at the air-water interface. The comparison between experiments and simulations reveals an agreement with no-slip boundary conditions prediction for the translation normal to the interface and the out-of-plane rotation, and with slip ones for parallel translations and in-plane rotation. We rationalize these evidences in the framework of surface incompressibility at the interface.
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- Stefano Villa
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, 37077 Göttingen, Germany.
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- Institute of Polymers, Composites, and Biomaterials, National Research Council of Italy, Naples, 80055 Portici, Italy
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- Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS UPR22, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), UMR 5221 CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy
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- Department of Chemical, Materials and Production Engineering, University of Naples Federico II, P.le Tecchio 80, 80125 Naples, Italy
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), UMR 5221 CNRS-Université de Montpellier, Montpellier, France.
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Pal A, Gope A, Sengupta A. Drying of bio-colloidal sessile droplets: Advances, applications, and perspectives. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 314:102870. [PMID: 37002959 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2023.102870] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/17/2022] [Revised: 03/03/2023] [Accepted: 03/03/2023] [Indexed: 04/03/2023]
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Drying of biologically-relevant sessile droplets, including passive systems such as DNA, proteins, plasma, and blood, as well as active microbial systems comprising bacterial and algal dispersions, has garnered considerable attention over the last decades. Distinct morphological patterns emerge when bio-colloids undergo evaporative drying, with significant potential in a wide range of biomedical applications, spanning bio-sensing, medical diagnostics, drug delivery, and antimicrobial resistance. Consequently, the prospects of novel and thrifty bio-medical toolkits based on drying bio-colloids have driven tremendous progress in the science of morphological patterns and advanced quantitative image-based analysis. This review presents a comprehensive overview of bio-colloidal droplets drying on solid substrates, focusing on the experimental progress during the last ten years. We provide a summary of the physical and material properties of relevant bio-colloids and link their native composition (constituent particles, solvent, and concentrations) to the patterns emerging due to drying. We specifically examined the drying patterns generated by passive bio-colloids (e.g., DNA, globular, fibrous, composite proteins, plasma, serum, blood, urine, tears, and saliva). This article highlights how the emerging morphological patterns are influenced by the nature of the biological entities and the solvent, micro- and global environmental conditions (temperature and relative humidity), and substrate attributes like wettability. Crucially, correlations between emergent patterns and the initial droplet compositions enable the detection of potential clinical abnormalities when compared with the patterns of drying droplets of healthy control samples, offering a blueprint for the diagnosis of the type and stage of a specific disease (or disorder). Recent experimental investigations of pattern formation in the bio-mimetic and salivary drying droplets in the context of COVID-19 are also presented. We further summarized the role of biologically active agents in the drying process, including bacteria, algae, spermatozoa, and nematodes, and discussed the coupling between self-propulsion and hydrodynamics during the drying process. We wrap up the review by highlighting the role of cross-scale in situ experimental techniques for quantifying sub-micron to micro-scale features and the critical role of cross-disciplinary approaches (e.g., experimental and image processing techniques with machine learning algorithms) to quantify and predict the drying-induced features. We conclude the review with a perspective on the next generation of research and applications based on drying droplets, ultimately enabling innovative solutions and quantitative tools to investigate this exciting interface of physics, biology, data sciences, and machine learning.
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- Anusuya Pal
- University of Warwick, Department of Physics, Coventry CV47AL, West Midlands, UK; Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Department of Physics, Worcester 01609, MA, USA.
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- Tezpur University, Department of Linguistics and Language Technology, Tezpur 784028, Assam, India
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- University of Luxembourg, Physics of Living Matter, Department of Physics and Materials Science, Luxembourg L-1511, Luxembourg
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Dubay MM, Acres J, Riekeles M, Nadeau JL. Recent advances in experimental design and data analysis to characterize prokaryotic motility. J Microbiol Methods 2023; 204:106658. [PMID: 36529156 DOI: 10.1016/j.mimet.2022.106658] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/07/2022] [Revised: 12/13/2022] [Accepted: 12/13/2022] [Indexed: 12/23/2022]
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Bacterial motility plays a key role in important cell processes such as chemotaxis and biofilm formation, but is challenging to quantify due to the small size of the individual microorganisms and the complex interplay of biological and physical factors that influence motility phenotypes. Swimming, the first type of motility described in bacteria, still remains largely unquantified. Light microscopy has enabled qualitative characterization of swimming patterns seen in different strains, such as run and tumble, run-reverse-flick, run and slow, stop and coil, and push and pull, which has allowed for elucidation of the underlying physics. However, quantifying these behaviors (e.g., identifying run distances and speeds, turn angles and behavior by surfaces or cell-cell interactions) remains a challenging task. A qualitative and quantitative understanding of bacterial motility is needed to bridge the gap between experimentation, omics analysis, and bacterial motility theory. In this review, we discuss the strengths and limitations of how phase contrast microscopy, fluorescence microscopy, and digital holographic microscopy have been used to quantify bacterial motility. Approaches to automated software analysis, including cell recognition, tracking, and track analysis, are also discussed with a view to providing a guide for experimenters to setting up the appropriate imaging and analysis system for their needs.
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- Megan Marie Dubay
- Department of Physics, Portland State University, 1719 SW 10(th) Ave., Portland, OR 97201, United States of America
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- Department of Physics, Portland State University, 1719 SW 10(th) Ave., Portland, OR 97201, United States of America
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- Astrobiology Group, Center of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Technical University Berlin, Hardenbergstraße 36A, 10623 Berlin, Germany
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- Department of Physics, Portland State University, 1719 SW 10(th) Ave., Portland, OR 97201, United States of America.
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Villa S, Blanc C, Daddi-Moussa-Ider A, Stocco A, Nobili M. Microparticle Brownian motion near an air-water interface governed by direction-dependent boundary conditions. J Colloid Interface Sci 2023; 629:917-927. [PMID: 36208604 DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.09.099] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2022] [Revised: 09/13/2022] [Accepted: 09/19/2022] [Indexed: 11/26/2022]
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HYPOTHESIS Although the dynamics of colloids in the vicinity of a solid interface has been widely characterized in the past, experimental studies of Brownian diffusion close to an air-water interface are rare and limited to particle-interface gap distances larger than the particle size. At the still unexplored lower distances, the dynamics is expected to be extremely sensitive to boundary conditions at the air-water interface. There, ad hoc experiments would provide a quantitative validation of predictions. EXPERIMENTS Using a specially designed dual wave interferometric setup, the 3D dynamics of 9 μm diameter particles at a few hundreds of nanometers from an air-water interface is here measured in thermal equilibrium. FINDINGS Intriguingly, while the measured dynamics parallel to the interface approaches expected predictions for slip boundary conditions, the Brownian motion normal to the interface is very close to the predictions for no-slip boundary conditions. These puzzling results are rationalized considering current models of incompressible interfacial flow and deepened developing an ad hoc model which considers the contribution of tiny concentrations of surface active particles at the interface. We argue that such condition governs the particle dynamics in a large spectrum of systems ranging from biofilm formation to flotation process.
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- Stefano Villa
- Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen, Germany
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), UMR 5221 CNRS-Université de Montpellier, France
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- Institut Charles Sadron, CNRS UPR22, University of Strasbourg, France
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), UMR 5221 CNRS-Université de Montpellier, France.
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Tai CW, Ahmadzadegan A, Ardekani A, Narsimhan V. A forward reconstruction, holographic method to overcome the lens effect during 3D detection of semi-transparent, non-spherical particles. SOFT MATTER 2022; 19:115-127. [PMID: 36472306 DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00738j] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/17/2023]
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Suspensions of semi-transparent particles such as polystyrene microparticles are commonly used as model systems in the study of micro-rheology, biology, and microfluidics. Holography is a valuable tool that allows one to obtain 3-D information for particle position and orientation, but forward reconstruction techniques often struggle to infer this information accurately for semi-transparent spheroids with an O(1) aspect ratio, since the lens effect from the particle introduces complex patterns. We propose a reconstruction method that uses image moment information to generate a mask over the sharp patterns from the lens effect and gives reasonable estimation of the 3-D position and orientation of the particle. The method proposed in this work uses the average particle geometry information to determine the process parameters and identify the appropriate detection zone. The average detection error for zc is less than 25% of the average particle thickness, and the average errors in the in-plane and out-of-plane orientations ϕ and θ are 2° and 4°, respectively. Our method provides comparable accuracy in the detection of the particle center of mass (xc, yc, zc) and in-plane orientation ϕ as a recent forward reconstruction method for semi-transparent particles proposed by Byeon et al. (H. Byeon, T. Go and S. J. Lee, Appl. Opt., 2016, 54, 2106-2112; H. Byeon, T. Go and S. J. Lee, Opt. Express, 2016, 24, 598-610). This method provides a clearly defined framework for identifying the particle's out-of-plane tilt angle θ. We finally demonstrate the applicability of the method to opaque, slender (aspect ratio AR ≫ 1) particles by analyzing the 3-D motion of E. coli cells from holographic video footage.
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- Cheng-Wei Tai
- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 W Stadium Ave, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 585 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, 585 Purdue Mall, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, 480 W Stadium Ave, West Lafayette, IN, 47907, USA.
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Active Colloids on Fluid Interfaces. Curr Opin Colloid Interface Sci 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.cocis.2022.101629] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Motility Suppression and Trapping Bacteria by ZnO Nanostructures. CRYSTALS 2022. [DOI: 10.3390/cryst12081027] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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Regulating the swimming motility of bacteria near surfaces is essential to suppress or avoid bacterial contamination and infection in catheters and medical devices with wall surfaces. However, the motility of bacteria near walls strongly depends on the combination of the local physicochemical properties of the surfaces. To unravel how nanostructures and their local chemical microenvironment dynamically affect the bacterial motility near surfaces, here, we directly visualize the bacterial swimming and systematically analyze the motility of Escherichia coli swimming on ZnO nanoparticle films and nanowire arrays with further ultraviolet irradiation. The results show that the ZnO nanowire arrays reduce the swimming motility, thus significantly enhancing the trapping ability for motile bacteria. Additionally, thanks to the wide bandgap nature of a ZnO semiconductor, the ultraviolet irradiation rapidly reduces the bacteria locomotion due to the hydroxyl and singlet oxygen produced by the photodynamic effects of ZnO nanowire arrays in an aqueous solution. The findings quantitatively reveal how the combination of geometrical nanostructured surfaces and local tuning of the steric microenvironment are able to regulate the motility of swimming bacteria and suggest the efficient inhibition of bacterial translocation and infection by nanostructured coatings.
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Nano/Micromotors in Active Matter. MICROMACHINES 2022; 13:mi13020307. [PMID: 35208431 PMCID: PMC8878230 DOI: 10.3390/mi13020307] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/28/2022] [Revised: 02/12/2022] [Accepted: 02/15/2022] [Indexed: 02/04/2023]
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Nano/micromotors (NMMs) are tiny objects capable of converting energy into mechanical motion. Recently, a wealth of active matter including synthetic colloids, cytoskeletons, bacteria, and cells have been used to construct NMMs. The self-sustained motion of active matter drives NMMs out of equilibrium, giving rise to rich dynamics and patterns. Alongside the spontaneous dynamics, external stimuli such as geometric confinements, light, magnetic field, and chemical potential are also harnessed to control the movements of NMMs, yielding new application paradigms of active matter. Here, we review the recent advances, both experimental and theoretical, in exploring biological NMMs. The unique dynamical features of collective NMMs are focused on, along with some possible applications of these intriguing systems.
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Ferretti S, Bianchi S, Frangipane G, Di Leonardo R. A virtual reality interface for the immersive manipulation of live microscopic systems. Sci Rep 2021; 11:7610. [PMID: 33828325 PMCID: PMC8027422 DOI: 10.1038/s41598-021-87004-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/26/2020] [Accepted: 03/22/2021] [Indexed: 12/02/2022] Open
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For more than three centuries we have been watching and studying microscopic phenomena behind a microscope. We discovered that cells live in a physical environment whose predominant factors are no longer those of our scale and for which we lack a direct experience and consequently a deep intuition. Here we demonstrate a new instrument which, by integrating holographic and virtual reality technologies, allows the user to be completely immersed in a dynamic virtual world which is a simultaneous replica of a real system under the microscope. We use holographic microscopy for fast 3D imaging and real-time rendering on a virtual reality headset. At the same time, hand tracking data is used to dynamically generate holographic optical traps that can be used as virtual projections of the user hands to interactively grab and manipulate ensembles of microparticles or living motile cells.
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- Stefano Ferretti
- Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Soft and Living Matter Laboratory, NANOTEC-CNR, Institute of Nanotechnology, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Soft and Living Matter Laboratory, NANOTEC-CNR, Institute of Nanotechnology, 00185, Rome, Italy
- Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Soft and Living Matter Laboratory, NANOTEC-CNR, Institute of Nanotechnology, 00185, Rome, Italy.
- Physics Department, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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Clopés J, Winkler RG. Flagellar arrangements in elongated peritrichous bacteria: bundle formation and swimming properties. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2021; 44:17. [PMID: 33683543 PMCID: PMC7940165 DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-021-00027-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/13/2020] [Accepted: 01/25/2021] [Indexed: 05/26/2023]
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The surface distribution of flagella in peritrichous bacterial cells has been traditionally assumed to be random. Recently, the presence of a regular grid-like pattern of basal bodies has been suggested. Experimentally, the manipulation of the anchoring points of flagella in the cell membrane is difficult, and thus, elucidation of the consequences of a particular pattern on bacterial locomotion is challenging. We analyze the bundle formation process and swimming properties of Bacillus subtilis-like cells considering random, helical, and ring-like arrangements of flagella by means of mesoscale hydrodynamics simulations. Helical and ring patterns preferentially yield configurations with a single bundle, whereas configurations with no clear bundles are most likely for random anchoring. For any type of pattern, there is an almost equally low probability to form V-shaped bundle configurations with at least two bundles. Variation of the flagellum length yields a clear preference for a single major bundle in helical and ring patterns as soon as the flagellum length exceeds the body length. The average swimming speed of cells with a single or two bundles is rather similar, and approximately [Formula: see text] larger than that of cells of other types of flagellar organization. Considering the various anchoring patterns, rings yield the smallest average swimming speed independent of the type of bundle, followed by helical arrangements, and largest speeds are observed for random anchoring. Hence, a regular pattern provides no advantage in terms of swimming speed compared to random anchoring of flagella, but yields more likely single-bundle configurations.
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- Judit Clopés
- Theoretical Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich and JARA, 52425, Jülich, Germany
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany
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- Theoretical Physics of Living Matter, Institute of Biological Information Processing and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich and JARA, 52425, Jülich, Germany.
- Institute for Theoretical Physics, RWTH Aachen University, 52074, Aachen, Germany.
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Zhang J, Chinappi M, Biferale L. Base flow decomposition for complex moving objects in linear hydrodynamics: Application to helix-shaped flagellated microswimmers. Phys Rev E 2021; 103:023109. [PMID: 33736027 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.023109] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/25/2020] [Accepted: 02/07/2021] [Indexed: 06/12/2023]
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The motion of microswimmers in complex flows is ruled by the interplay between swimmer propulsion and the dynamics induced by the fluid velocity field. Here we study the motion of a chiral microswimmer whose propulsion is provided by the spinning of a helical tail with respect to its body in a simple shear flow. Thanks to an efficient computational strategy that allowed us to simulate thousands of different trajectories, we show that the tail shape dramatically affects the swimmer's motion. In the shear dominated regime, the swimmers carrying an elliptical helical tail show several different Jeffery-like (tumbling) trajectories depending on their initial configuration. As the propulsion torque increases, a progressive regularization of the motion is observed until, in the propulsion dominated regime, the swimmers converge to the same final trajectory independently on the initial configuration. Overall, our results show that elliptical helix swimmer presents a much richer variety of trajectories with respect to the usually studied circular helix tails.
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- Ji Zhang
- Beijing Computational Science Research Center, Beijing 100193, China
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- Department of Industrial Engineering, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Via del Politecnico 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
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- Department of Physics, INFN, University of Rome, Tor Vergata, Via della Ricerca Scientifica 1, 00133 Roma, Italy
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<p>Digital holographic microscopy provides the ability to observe throughout a large volume without refocusing. This capability enables simultaneous observations of large numbers of microorganisms swimming in an essentially unconstrained fashion. However, computational tools for tracking large 4D datasets remain lacking. In this paper, we examine the errors introduced by tracking bacterial motion as 2D projections vs. 3D volumes under different circumstances: bacteria free in liquid media and bacteria near a glass surface. We find that while XYZ speeds are generally equal to or larger than XY speeds, they are still within empirical uncertainties. Additionally, when studying dynamic surface behavior, the Z coordinate cannot be neglected.</p>
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Villa S, Boniello G, Stocco A, Nobili M. Motion of micro- and nano- particles interacting with a fluid interface. Adv Colloid Interface Sci 2020; 284:102262. [PMID: 32956958 DOI: 10.1016/j.cis.2020.102262] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/29/2020] [Revised: 09/02/2020] [Accepted: 09/02/2020] [Indexed: 11/17/2022]
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In this article, we review both theoretical models and experimental results on the motion of micro- and nano- particles that are close to a fluid interface or move in between two fluids. Viscous drags together with dissipations due to fluctuations of the fluid interface and its physicochemical properties affect strongly the translational and rotational drags of colloidal particles, which are subjected to Brownian motion in thermal equilibrium. Even if many theoretical and experimental investigations have been carried out, additional scientific efforts in hydrodynamics, statistical physics, wetting and colloid science are still needed to explain unexpected experimental results and to measure particle motion in time and space scales, which are not accessible so far.
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- Stefano Villa
- Dipartimento di Biotecnologie Mediche e Medicina Traslazionale, Università degli Studi di Milano, 20090 Segrate, Italy
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- Surface du Verre et Interfaces (SVI), UMR 125 CNRS/Saint-Gobain Recherche, 93303 Aubervilliers, France
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- Institut Charles Sadron (ICS), CNRS, University of Strasbourg, Strasbourg, France.
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- Laboratoire Charles Coulomb (L2C), CNRS, University of Montpellier, Montpellier, France
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Biophysical methods to quantify bacterial behaviors at oil-water interfaces. J Ind Microbiol Biotechnol 2020; 47:725-738. [PMID: 32743734 DOI: 10.1007/s10295-020-02293-5] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/31/2020] [Accepted: 07/16/2020] [Indexed: 02/03/2023]
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Motivated by the need for improved understanding of physical processes involved in bacterial biodegradation of catastrophic oil spills, we review biophysical methods to probe bacterial motility and adhesion at oil-water interfaces. This review summarizes methods that probe bulk, average behaviors as well as local, microscopic behaviors, and highlights opportunities for future work to bridge the gap between biodegradation and biophysics.
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Deng J, Molaei M, Chisholm NG, Stebe KJ. Motile Bacteria at Oil-Water Interfaces: Pseudomonas aeruginosa. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:6888-6902. [PMID: 32097012 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03578] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Bacteria are important examples of active or self-propelled colloids. Because of their directed motion, they accumulate near interfaces. There, they can become trapped and swim adjacent to the interface via hydrodynamic interactions, or they can adsorb directly and swim in an adhered state with complex trajectories that differ from those in bulk in both form and spatiotemporal implications. We have adopted the monotrichous bacterium Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 as a model species and have studied its motion at oil-aqueous interfaces. We have identified conditions in which bacteria swim persistently without restructuring the interface, allowing detailed and prolonged study of their motion. In addition to characterizing the ensemble behavior of the bacteria, we have observed a gallery of distinct trajectories of individual swimmers on and near fluid interfaces. We attribute these diverse swimming behaviors to differing trapped states for the bacteria in the fluid interface. These trajectory types include Brownian diffusive paths for passive adsorbed bacteria, curvilinear trajectories including curly paths with radii of curvature larger than the cell body length, and rapid pirouette motions with radii of curvature comparable to the cell body length. Finally, we see interfacial visitors that come and go from the interfacial plane. We characterize these individual swimmer motions. This work may impact nutrient cycles for bacteria on or near interfaces in nature. This work will also have implications in microrobotics, as active colloids in general and bacteria in particular are used to carry cargo in this burgeoning field. Finally, these results have implications in engineering of active surfaces that exploit interfacially trapped self-propelled colloids.
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- Jiayi Deng
- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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- Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, United States
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Mousavi SM, Gompper G, Winkler RG. Wall entrapment of peritrichous bacteria: a mesoscale hydrodynamics simulation study. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:4866-4875. [PMID: 32424390 DOI: 10.1039/d0sm00571a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Microswimmers such as E. coli bacteria accumulate and exhibit an intriguing dynamics near walls, governed by hydrodynamic and steric interactions. Insight into the underlying mechanisms and predominant interactions demand a detailed characterization of the entrapment process. We employ a mesoscale hydrodynamics simulation approach to study entrapment of an E. coli-type cell at a no-slip wall. The cell is modeled by a spherocylindrical body with several explicit helical flagella. Three stages of the entrapment process can be distinguished: the approaching regime, where a cell swims toward a wall on a nearly straight trajectory; a scattering regime, where the cell touches the wall and reorients; and a surface-swimming regime. Our simulations show that steric interactions may dominate the entrapment process, yet, hydrodynamic interactions slow down the adsorption dynamics close to the boundary and imply a circular motion on the wall. The locomotion of the cell is characterized by a strong wobbling dynamics, with cells preferentially pointing toward the wall during surface swimming.
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- S Mahdiyeh Mousavi
- Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics, Institute of Complex Systems and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich and JARA, D-52425 Jülich, Germany.
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Vizsnyiczai G, Frangipane G, Bianchi S, Saglimbeni F, Dell'Arciprete D, Di Leonardo R. A transition to stable one-dimensional swimming enhances E. coli motility through narrow channels. Nat Commun 2020; 11:2340. [PMID: 32393772 PMCID: PMC7214458 DOI: 10.1038/s41467-020-15711-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/03/2019] [Accepted: 03/20/2020] [Indexed: 01/16/2023] Open
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Living organisms often display adaptive strategies that allow them to move efficiently even in strong confinement. With one single degree of freedom, the angle of a rotating bundle of flagella, bacteria provide one of the simplest examples of locomotion in the living world. Here we show that a purely physical mechanism, depending on a hydrodynamic stability condition, is responsible for a confinement induced transition between two swimming states in E. coli. While in large channels bacteria always crash onto confining walls, when the cross section falls below a threshold, they leave the walls to move swiftly on a stable swimming trajectory along the channel axis. We investigate this phenomenon for individual cells that are guided through a sequence of micro-fabricated tunnels of decreasing cross section. Our results challenge current theoretical predictions and suggest effective design principles for microrobots by showing that motility based on helical propellers provides a robust swimming strategy for exploring narrow spaces.
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- Gaszton Vizsnyiczai
- Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.,Biological Research Centre, Institute of Biophysics, Szeged, 6726, Hungary
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- Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.,NANOTEC-CNR, Institute of Nanotechnology, Soft and Living Matter Laboratory, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- NANOTEC-CNR, Institute of Nanotechnology, Soft and Living Matter Laboratory, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- NANOTEC-CNR, Institute of Nanotechnology, Soft and Living Matter Laboratory, 00185, Rome, Italy
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- Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy.,CNRS-Laboratoire de Physique de l'École Normale Supérieure, 75005, Paris, France
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- Department of Physics, Sapienza University of Rome, 00185, Rome, Italy. .,NANOTEC-CNR, Institute of Nanotechnology, Soft and Living Matter Laboratory, 00185, Rome, Italy.
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Fadda F, Molina JJ, Yamamoto R. Dynamics of a chiral swimmer sedimenting on a flat plate. Phys Rev E 2020; 101:052608. [PMID: 32575256 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.101.052608] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/02/2020] [Accepted: 04/29/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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Three-dimensional simulations with fully resolved hydrodynamics are performed to study the dynamics of a single squirmer with and without gravity to clarify its motion in the vicinity of a flat plate. In the absence of gravity and chirality, the usual dynamics of a squirmer near a wall are recovered. The introduction of chirality modifies the swimming motion of squirmers, adding a component of motion in the third direction. When sedimentation is considered, different dynamics emerge for different gravity strength regimes. In a moderate gravity regime, neutral squirmers and pullers eventually stop moving and reorient in a direction perpendicular to the plate; by contrast, pushers exhibit continuous motion in a tilted direction. In the strong gravity regime, all squirmers sediment and reorient perpendicular to the plate. In this study, chirality is introduced to model realistic microswimmers, and its crucial effects on the nature of squirmer trajectories, which change from straight to circular, are discussed.
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- Federico Fadda
- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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- Department of Chemical Engineering, Kyoto University, Kyoto 615-8510, Japan
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Desai N, Ardekani AM. Biofilms at interfaces: microbial distribution in floating films. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:1731-1750. [PMID: 31976509 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm02038a] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Cellular motility is a key function guiding microbial adhesion to interfaces, which is the first step in the formation of biofilms. The close association of biofilms and bioremediation has prompted extensive research aimed at comprehending the physics of microbial locomotion near interfaces. We study the dynamics and statistics of microorganisms in a 'floating biofilm', i.e., a confinement with an air-liquid interface on one side and a liquid-liquid interface on the other. We use a very general mathematical model, based on a multipole representation and probabilistic simulations, to ascertain the spatial distribution of microorganisms in films of different viscosities. Our results reveal that microorganisms can be distributed symmetrically or asymmetrically across the height of the film, depending on their morphology and the ratio of the film's viscosity to that of the fluid substrate. Long-flagellated, elongated bacteria exhibit stable swimming parallel to the liquid-liquid interface when the bacterial film is less viscous than the underlying fluid. Bacteria with shorter flagella on the other hand, swim away from the liquid-liquid interface and accumulate at the free surface. We also analyze microorganism dynamics in a flowing film and show how a microorganism's ability to resist 'flow-induced-erosion' from interfaces is affected by its elongation and mode of propulsion. Our study generalizes past efforts on understanding microorganism dynamics under confinement by interfaces and provides key insights on biofilm initiation at liquid-liquid interfaces.
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- Nikhil Desai
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA.
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Ahmadzadegan A, Wang S, Vlachos PP, Ardekani AM. Hydrodynamic attraction of bacteria to gas and liquid interfaces. Phys Rev E 2019; 100:062605. [PMID: 31962476 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.100.062605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2019] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Near an interface, the distribution of swimming microorganisms such as bacteria is distinguished from inert colloidal particles because of the interfacial hydrodynamics induced by swimming. In this work, we use nontumbling flagellated bacteria, Escherichia coli, to study cell distribution near gas and liquid interfaces and compare it to the case of a solid wall. For low-viscosity ratios such as gas interfaces, we observe a stronger cell accumulation compared to that near liquid and solid surfaces. This contradicts known theoretical predictions. Therefore, we develop a model based on Brownian dynamics, including hydrodynamic effects and short-range physiochemical interactions between bacteria and interfaces. This model explains our experimental findings and can predict cell distribution near clean and surfactant-contaminated interfaces. By considering higher order singularities, this study helps explain bacteria orientation, trajectories, and cell density.
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- Adib Ahmadzadegan
- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- Davidson School of Chemical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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- School of Mechanical Engineering, Purdue University, West Lafayette, Indiana 47907, USA
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