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Leipzig and Prague physicists switch a microswimmer's propulsion mode with patterned laser light
Heating a gold-coated sphere with tailored light patterns makes the same particle push like a bacterium or pull like an alga. Because the laser can only add heat, the slowest style turned out to be the most efficient.
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