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A combined rheometry and imaging study of viscosity reduction in bacterial suspensions.

ABSTRACT: Suspending self-propelled "pushers" in a liquid lowers its viscosity. We study how this phenomenon depends on system size in bacterial suspensions using bulk rheometry and particle-tracking rheoimaging. Above the critical bacterial volume fraction needed to decrease the viscosity to zero, [Formula: see text], large-scale collective motion emerges in the quiescent state, and the flow becomes nonlinear. We confirm a theoretical prediction that such instability should be suppressed by confinement. Our results also show that a recent application of active liquid-crystal theory to such systems is untenable.

SUBMITTER: Martinez VA

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7007524 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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A combined rheometry and imaging study of viscosity reduction in bacterial suspensions.

Martinez Vincent A VA Clément Eric E Arlt Jochen J Douarche Carine C Dawson Angela A Schwarz-Linek Jana J Creppy Adama K AK Škultéty Viktor V Morozov Alexander N AN Auradou Harold H Poon Wilson C K WCK

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20200121 5

Suspending self-propelled "pushers" in a liquid lowers its viscosity. We study how this phenomenon depends on system size in bacterial suspensions using bulk rheometry and particle-tracking rheoimaging. Above the critical bacterial volume fraction needed to decrease the viscosity to zero, [Formula: see text], large-scale collective motion emerges in the quiescent state, and the flow becomes nonlinear. We confirm a theoretical prediction that such instability should be suppressed by confinement. ...[more]

PMID: 31964833

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