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Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2023 “On‐the‐fly” molecule enrichment by micro/nanomotors obviously improves heterogeneous catalysis, trace detection, and environmental monitoring, yet faces challenges of the trade‐off between collection range and interaction time. Inspired by the versatile
Jinwei Lin +5 more
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Active Micro/Nanoparticles in Colloidal Microswarms
Nanomaterials, 2023 Colloidal microswarms have attracted increasing attention in the last decade due to their unique capabilities in various complex tasks. Thousands or even millions of tiny active agents are gathered with distinctive features and emerging behaviors, demonstrating fascinating equilibrium and non-equilibrium collective states.
Qianqian Wang, Dongdong Jin
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Frontiers in Physics, 2021 One objective of active matter science is to unveil principles by which chaotic microscale dynamics could be transformed into useful work. A nematic liquid crystal environment offers a number of possibilities, one of which is a directional motion of an ...
Mojtaba Rajabi +7 more
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Feedback-controlled active brownian colloids with space-dependent rotational dynamics
Nature Communications, 2020 Active colloidal systems can serve as an enabling platform to study complex out-of-equilibrium physical phenomena. Using a magnetic control with a feedback loop, here the authors program the dynamics of active Brownian particles by updating their ...
Miguel Angel Fernandez-Rodriguez +6 more
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Phase separation and rotor self-assembly in active particle suspensions
, 2012 Adding a non-adsorbing polymer to passive colloids induces an attraction between the particles via the `depletion' mechanism. High enough polymer concentrations lead to phase separation.
A. Cacciuto +13 more
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Emergent vortices in populations of colloidal rollers [PDF]
, 2015 Coherent vortical motion has been reported in a wide variety of populations including living organisms (bacteria, fishes, human crowds) and synthetic active matter (shaken grains, mixtures of biopolymers), yet a unified description of the formation and ...
Bartolo, Denis +9 more
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Graphene–Catechol Dental Sealant: Antibacterial and Mechanical Evaluation
Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.This study presents dental sealants made with graphene and L‐DOPA‐modified graphene. L‐DOPA enhances graphene dispersion, improving sealant properties. The material shows antibacterial activity against S. mutans and L. casei, along with high strength and elasticity.
Renata Pereira +6 more
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Review: Interactions of Active Colloids with Passive Tracers
Condensed Matter, 2019 Collective phenomena existing universally in both biological systems and artificial active matter are increasingly attracting interest. The interactions can be grouped into active-active and active-passive ones, where the reports on the purely active ...
Linlin Wang, Juliane Simmchen
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Driving dynamic colloidal assembly using eccentric self-propelled colloids
, 2017 Designing protocols to dynamically direct the self-assembly of colloidal particles has become an important direction in soft matter physics because of the promising applications in fabrication of dynamic responsive functional materials.
Lei, Qun-li, Ma, Zhan, Ni, Ran
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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.A new experimental setup, incorporating digital image correlation and infrared thermography in combination with inductive‐conductive heating for precise temperature control, is used to analyze the mechanical behavior and microstructural changes of sheet metal under complex thermomechanical test conditions that represent quench and partitioning ...
Christian Illgen +4 more
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