Stabilizing by steering: Enhancing bacterial motility by non-uniform diffusiophoresis
Bacteria are often required to navigate across confined spaces to reach desired destinations in biological and environmental systems, allowing critical functions in host-microbe symbiosis, infection, drug delivery, soil ecology, and soil bioremediation. While the canonical run-and-tumble motility is effective in finding targets under confinement, it may not represent the most ideal strategy due to the continuous monitoring of environmental cues and stochastic recorrection of their paths. Here, …
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