Driven shear flow in biological magneto-active fluids

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Main Authors: Marmol, Malo, Cottin-Bizonne, Cécile, Cebers, Andrejs, Faivre, Damien, Ybert, Christophe
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Published: 2025
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author Marmol, Malo
Cottin-Bizonne, Cécile
Cebers, Andrejs
Faivre, Damien
Ybert, Christophe
author_facet Marmol, Malo
Cottin-Bizonne, Cécile
Cebers, Andrejs
Faivre, Damien
Ybert, Christophe
contents Active fluids made of powered suspended particles have unique abilities to self-generate flow and density structures. How such dynamics can be triggered and leveraged by external cues is a key question of both biological and applied relevance. Here we use magnetotactic bacteria to explore how chemotaxis and magnetotaxis -- leading, respectively, to positional and orientational responses -- combine to generate global scale flows. Such steady regime can be quantitatively captured by a magneto-active hydrodynamic model, while time-dependent magnetic driving unveils additional patterning complexity. Overall, our findings shed light on how active fluids respond to the ubiquitous situation of multiple external information, also suggesting routes for their manipulation.
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spellingShingle Driven shear flow in biological magneto-active fluids
Marmol, Malo
Cottin-Bizonne, Cécile
Cebers, Andrejs
Faivre, Damien
Ybert, Christophe
Soft Condensed Matter
Active fluids made of powered suspended particles have unique abilities to self-generate flow and density structures. How such dynamics can be triggered and leveraged by external cues is a key question of both biological and applied relevance. Here we use magnetotactic bacteria to explore how chemotaxis and magnetotaxis -- leading, respectively, to positional and orientational responses -- combine to generate global scale flows. Such steady regime can be quantitatively captured by a magneto-active hydrodynamic model, while time-dependent magnetic driving unveils additional patterning complexity. Overall, our findings shed light on how active fluids respond to the ubiquitous situation of multiple external information, also suggesting routes for their manipulation.
title Driven shear flow in biological magneto-active fluids
topic Soft Condensed Matter
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2507.13851