Objective
HydroCat proposes a simulation and theory study into the collective behaviour of catalytically-driven, self-propelled colloids. The first step of the investigation focusses on understanding the mechanism by which platinum-coated Janus particles self-propel on a single-particle level. This will be accomplished by modelling the two candidates for the mechanism, self-diffusiophoresis and self-electrophoresis, and directly comparing the behaviour of the hybrid-model to experimental results. Once sufficient insight has been achieved, the focus of the project will shift to the description of the collective behaviour of these particles. Here, HydroCat follows a three-pronged strategy: (i) development of a finely-resolved lattice-Boltzmann (LB) simulation that takes into account all relevant physical effects and is capable of simulating a large number of particles; (ii) coarse-grained molecular dynamics simulations to study the collective behaviour of these Janus colloids, which are benchmarked against the fine LB simulations; and (iii) a fully coarse-grained, field-theoretical description that uses input from both (i) and (ii). HydroCat will result in an improved understanding of the catalytic self-propulsion, which will serve as a solid foundation for the description of experiments and the development of applications.
Fields of science (EuroSciVoc)
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CORDIS classifies projects with EuroSciVoc, a multilingual taxonomy of fields of science, through a semi-automatic process based on NLP techniques. See: The European Science Vocabulary.
- natural sciences physical sciences condensed matter physics soft matter physics
- natural sciences physical sciences optics microscopy
- natural sciences physical sciences molecular and chemical physics
- natural sciences chemical sciences catalysis
- natural sciences mathematics applied mathematics numerical analysis
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Programme(s)
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H2020-EU.1.3. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions
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H2020-EU.1.3.2. - Nurturing excellence by means of cross-border and cross-sector mobility
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Topic(s)
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Funding Scheme
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MSCA-IF-EF-ST - Standard EF
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Call for proposal
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(opens in new window) H2020-MSCA-IF-2014
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EH8 9YL Edinburgh
United Kingdom
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