Phototactic Behavior (IMAGE)
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Travel into the darkness: half-coated Janus particles, named after the Roman double-faced godness, are autonomously navigating towards a light source. Researchers based in Stuttgart find such phototactic behavior, also known from living microorganisms, also in synthetically fabricated microswimmers.
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Celia Lozano (MPI for Intelligent Systems/University of Stuttgart)
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