| Title | Swimming statistics of cargo-loaded single bacteria |
| Publication Type | Journal Article |
| Year of Publication | 2020 |
| Authors | Prakash, P, Abdulla, AZ, Singh, V, Varma, M |
| Journal | arXiv preprint arXiv:2005.12070 |
| Abstract | Burgeoning interest in the area of bacteria-powered micro robotic systems prompted us to study the dynamics of cargo transport by single bacteria. In this paper, we have studied the swimming behaviour of oil-droplets attached as a cargo to the cell bodies of single bacteria. The oil-droplet loaded bacteria exhibit super-diffusive motion which is characterized by high degree of directional persistence. Interestingly, bacteria could navigate even when loaded with oil-droplets as large as 8 microns with an effective increase in rotational drag by more than 2 orders when compared to free bacteria. Further, the directional persistence of oil-droplet loaded bacteria was independent of the cargo size. |
