Contributed talk

Observing collective behavior of hybrid camphor-camphene spheroids on a water surface

Richard Loeffler, Martin Hanczyc, Gorecki Jerzy

Based on a mixture of camphor and camphene, combining the malleability of camphene with the strong surface activity of camphor, we produced a wax-like, self-propelled, material useful for experiments on surface active objects of arbitrary shapes. We propose that one of the uses for this Material is to investigate the collective behavior of active matter on a water surface. For example, we believe that it is possible to design a system which resembles clustering of cocci bacteria.