Fig. 2: Chemo-hydrodynamics of the active polymers in strong confinement.
From: Emergent dynamics due to chemo-hydrodynamic self-interactions in active polymers
Time-dependent configurations (left to right) due to the activity of the chains in A weak confinement (h/2b ≈ 1.4) and in B strong confinement (h/2b ≈ 1), where b represents the droplet radius and h denotes the confinement height (h ≈ 50 μm) (scale bar: 50 μm). Experimentally measured C hydrodynamic flow fields and D chemical fields for the situations corresponding to the strong confinements as in B. From left to right: dimer, trimer, and octamer (scale bar: 50 μm, colors of the chemical fields indicate normalized values of the concentration, with blue being the lowest and red being the highest).
