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  • Title: Hydrodynamics-Induced Long-Range Attraction between Plates in Bacterial Suspensions.
    Author: Ning L, Lou X, Ma Q, Yang Y, Luo N, Chen K, Meng F, Zhou X, Yang M, Peng Y.
    Journal: Phys Rev Lett; 2023 Oct 13; 131(15):158301. PubMed ID: 37897752.
    Abstract:
    We perform optical-tweezers experiments and mesoscale fluid simulations to study the effective interactions between two parallel plates immersed in bacterial suspensions. The plates are found to experience a long-range attraction, which increases linearly with bacterial density and decreases with plate separation. The higher bacterial density and orientation order between plates observed in the experiments imply that the long-range effective attraction mainly arises from the bacterial flow field, instead of the direct bacterium-plate collisions, which is confirmed by the simulations. Furthermore, the hydrodynamic contribution is inversely proportional to the squared interplate separation in the far field. Our findings highlight the importance of hydrodynamics on the effective forces between passive objects in active baths, providing new possibilities to control activity-directed assembly.
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