Spontaneous unidirectional rotation of a symmetric gear driven by spherical active particles

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Issue		Natl Sci Open Volume 3, Number 4, 2024 Special Topic: Active Matter


Article Number		20230066
Number of page(s)		13
Section		Physics
DOI		https://doi.org/10.1360/nso/20230066
Published online		05 January 2024

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