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American Institute of Physics, The Journal of Chemical Physics, 11(134), p. 114704

DOI: 10.1063/1.3567096

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Spontaneous mode-selection in the self-propelled motion of a solid/liquid composite driven by interfacial instability.

Journal article published in 2011 by Fumi Takabatake, Nobuyuki Magome, Masatoshi Ichikawa, Kenichi Yoshikawa ORCID
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Abstract

Spontaneous motion of a solid/liquid composite induced by a chemical Marangoni effect, where an oil droplet attached to a solid soap is placed on a water phase, was investigated. The composite exhibits various characteristic motions, such as revolution (orbital motion) and translational motion. The results showed that the mode of this spontaneous motion switches with a change in the size of the solid scrap. The essential features of this mode-switching were reproduced by ordinary differential equations by considering nonlinear friction with proper symmetry.