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Macroscale Chemotaxis from a Swarm of Bacteria‐Mimicking Nanoswimmers
Authors:Yuxing Ji  Xiankun Lin  Zhiguang Wu  Yingjie Wu  Wei Gao  Qiang He
Abstract:Inspired by the dynamics of bacterial swarming, we report a swarm of polymer‐brush‐grafted, glucose‐oxidase‐powered Janus gold nanoswimmers with a positive, macroscale chemotactic behavior. These nanoswimmers are prepared through the grafting of polymer brushes onto one side of gold nanoparticles, followed by functionalization with glucose oxidase on the other side. The resulting polymer‐brush‐functionalized Janus gold nanoswimmers exhibit efficient propulsion with a velocity of up to approximately 120 body lengths s?1 in the presence of glucose. The comparative analysis of their kinematic behavior reveals that the grafted polymer brushes significantly improve the translational diffusion of Janus gold nanoswimmers. Particularly, these bacteria‐mimicking Janus gold nanoswimmers display a collectively chemotactic motion along the concentration gradient of a glucose resource, which could be observed at the macroscale.
Keywords:Chemotaxis  Enzymatische Katalyse  Nanomotoren  Nanoschwimmer  Schwä  rme
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