DFG Priority Programme "Microswimmers"

Priority Programme “Microswimmers – From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behaviour” (SPP 1726)

Research Activities

SPP Funded Projects

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Artificial microswimmers formed by liquid crystal droplets

Christian Bahr, Corinna C. Maaß
Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization, Göttingen

Swimming of active colloids in artificial potentials

Larysa Baraban, Arthur Philip Nikolaus Erbe
TU Dresden; Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf

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Active particles in viscoelastic fluids

Clemens Bechinger
University of Stuttgart

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Chemical nanomotors

Michael Börsch, Peer Fischer
Uniklinikum Jena; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart

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Propulsion and interaction of hot Brownian swimmers

Frank Cichos, Klaus Kroy
Leipzig University

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Flagelated and ciliated microswimmers

Jens Elgeti, Gerhard Gompper
Forschungszentrum Jülich

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Magneto-aerotaxis in magnetotactic bacteria

Damien Faivre, Stefan Klumpp
Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm

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From solitary swimmers to swarms and back: trypanosomes on their journey through the tsetse fly

Markus Engstler
University of Würzburg

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Collective non-linear dynamics of cilia and flagella: from n=2 to n>>2 interacting cilia

Benjamin M. Friedrich
Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Dresden

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Magnetocapillary microrobots: hunting, harvesting and transporting objects at fluid interfaces

Jens Harting
Helmholtz Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg

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Cooperative behavior of microswimmers: the effect of ionic and reactive screening on hydrodynamic interactions in complex fluids

Christian Holm
University of Stuttgart

Analysis of the regulation of the flagella beating pattern using optogenetics

Jan Fritz Jikeli, Dagmar Wachten
Universitätsklinikum Bonn

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Biological microswimmers: from cellular signal processing to the 3D beating pattern and 3D swimming behaviour

U. Benjamin Kaupp
Forschungszentrum caesar, Bonn

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Deformable microcapsules and droplets as swimmers

Jan Kierfeld
Technical University of Dortmund

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Microscopic statistical theoretical description of the collective behaviour of microswimmers

Hartmut Löwen, Andreas Menzel
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf

Selforganization of active flow in a nematic swimmer

Marco Mazza
Max Planck Institute for self-organization

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Light driven microscopic hydrogel objects

Martin Möller
DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials

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Modular phoretic micro-swimmers: from individual drifters to multi-component self-propelling complexes and interacting swarms

Thomas Palberg
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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Cooperative properties of thermophoretic microswimmers

Marisol Ripoll
Forschungszentrum Jülich

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Light induced diffusioosmose: from the manipulation via self-propulsion to collective behaviour of microcolloids at solid-liquid interfaces

Svetlana Santer, Olga Vinogradova
University of Potsdam, Moscow state university

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Swimming behaviour of a sperm-flagella driven micro-bio-robot – from Fundamental Studies to Biomedical Applications

Oliver G. Schmidt
Leibniz-Institute for Solid-State and Materials Research Dresden e.V.

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Dynamical aggregation of self-propelled colloidal particles

Thomas Speck, Peter Virnau
Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz

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How hydrodynamics influences the collective motion of microswimmers: a particle based simulation study

Holger Stark
Technical University of Berlin

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Modecoupling theory of active Brownian particles

Thomas Voigtmann
German Aerospace Center, DLR, Cologne

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Bacterial Swarming: Role of Flagella in Emergent Behavior

Roland G. Winkler
Forschungszentrum Jülich

Associated Projects

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Active particles near interfaces and in external fields

Siegfried Dietrich, Mihail Popescu, William E. Uspal
Max Planck Institute for intelligent systems, Stuttgart

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Bacterial turbulence in the environment

Knut Drescher
Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology; Philipps-Universität Marburg

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Investigation of the self-propulsion of Janus particles near a polymer functionalized surface

Regine von Klitzing
Technical University of Berlin

Novel composite materials for development of light driven active matter

Juliane Simmchen
TU Dresden

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Deciphering how motile cilia regulate and coordinate their beating in order to produce a biologically-relevant flow

Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi
Kavli Institute for Neuroscience

Last Modified: 23.03.2022