DFG Priority Programme "Microswimmers"
Priority Programme “Microswimmers – From Single Particle Motion to Collective Behaviour” (SPP 1726)
Research Activities
SPP Funded Projects
| 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 | |
| Active particles in viscoelastic fluids Clemens Bechinger University of Stuttgart |
| Chemical nanomotors Michael Börsch, Peer Fischer Uniklinikum Jena; Max Planck Institute for Intelligent Systems, Stuttgart |
| Propulsion and interaction of hot Brownian swimmers Frank Cichos, Klaus Kroy Leipzig University |
| Flagelated and ciliated microswimmers Jens Elgeti, Gerhard Gompper Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| Magneto-aerotaxis in magnetotactic bacteria Damien Faivre, Stefan Klumpp Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces, Potsdam-Golm |
| From solitary swimmers to swarms and back: trypanosomes on their journey through the tsetse fly Markus Engstler University of Würzburg |
| 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 |
| Magnetocapillary microrobots: hunting, harvesting and transporting objects at fluid interfaces Jens Harting Helmholtz Institut Erlangen-Nürnberg |
| 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 | |
| Biological microswimmers: from cellular signal processing to the 3D beating pattern and 3D swimming behaviour U. Benjamin Kaupp Forschungszentrum caesar, Bonn |
| Deformable microcapsules and droplets as swimmers Jan Kierfeld Technical University of Dortmund |
| 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 | |
| Light driven microscopic hydrogel objects Martin Möller DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials |
| Modular phoretic micro-swimmers: from individual drifters to multi-component self-propelling complexes and interacting swarms Thomas Palberg Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz |
| Cooperative properties of thermophoretic microswimmers Marisol Ripoll Forschungszentrum Jülich |
| 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 |
| 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. |
| Dynamical aggregation of self-propelled colloidal particles Thomas Speck, Peter Virnau Johannes Gutenberg University of Mainz |
| How hydrodynamics influences the collective motion of microswimmers: a particle based simulation study Holger Stark Technical University of Berlin |
| Modecoupling theory of active Brownian particles Thomas Voigtmann German Aerospace Center, DLR, Cologne |
| Bacterial Swarming: Role of Flagella in Emergent Behavior Roland G. Winkler Forschungszentrum Jülich |
Associated Projects
| Active particles near interfaces and in external fields Siegfried Dietrich, Mihail Popescu, William E. Uspal Max Planck Institute for intelligent systems, Stuttgart |
| Bacterial turbulence in the environment Knut Drescher Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology; Philipps-Universität Marburg |
| 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 | |
| Deciphering how motile cilia regulate and coordinate their beating in order to produce a biologically-relevant flow Nathalie Jurisch-Yaksi Kavli Institute for Neuroscience |
