Domaines
Condensed matter
Statistical physics
Biophysics
Soft matter
Physics of liquids
Nonequilibrium statistical physics
Physics of living systems
Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics
Type of internship
Expérimental Description
We propose to develop autonomous sperm-like “micro-swimmers” by growing beating filament bundles from the surface of microbeads in solution. Our goal is to produce beating movements in 3D, analyze how the chirality at the single-filament scale translates at the mesoscopic scale of a whole bundle, and find conditions for which the beating bundles lead to persistent bead motion.
Contact
Pascal Martin