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Hot microswimmers are self-propelled Brownian particles that exploit local heating for their directed self-thermophoretic motion. We provide a pedagogical overview of the key physical mechanisms underlying this promising new technology. It covers the hydrodynamics of swimming, thermophoresis and -osmosis, hot Brownian motion, force-free steering, and dedicated experimental and simulation tools to analyze hot Brownian swimmers.

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  1. Institut für Theoretische Physik, Fakultät für Physik and Geowissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Klaus Kroy

  2. Department of Physical Sciences, Indian Institute of Science Education and Research Mohali, Sector 81, SAS Nagar, Manauli PO, India

    Dipanjan Chakraborty

  3. Institut für Experimentelle Physik I, Fakultät für Physik and Geowissenschaften, Universität Leipzig, Leipzig, Germany

    Frank Cichos

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Kroy, K., Chakraborty, D. & Cichos, F. Hot microswimmers. Eur. Phys. J. Spec. Top. 225, 2207–2225 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1140/epjst/e2016-60098-6

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