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npj Microgravity, 2022 In the last 20 years, active matter has been a highly dynamic field of research, bridging fundamental aspects of non-equilibrium thermodynamics with applications to biology, robotics, and nano-medicine.
Giorgio Volpe +6 more
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Nano/Micromotors in Active Matter [PDF]
Micromachines, 2022 Nano/micromotors (NMMs) are tiny objects capable of converting energy into mechanical motion. Recently, a wealth of active matter including synthetic colloids, cytoskeletons, bacteria, and cells have been used to construct NMMs. The self-sustained motion
Chenglin Lv, Yuguang Yang, Bo Li
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Light, Matter, Action: Shining Light on Active Matter [PDF]
ACS Photonics, 2023 Light carries energy and momentum. It can therefore alter the motion of objects from atomic to astronomical scales. Being widely available, readily controllable and broadly biocompatible, light is also an ideal tool to propel microscopic particles, drive them out of thermodynamic equilibrium and make them active.
Giovanni Volpe +2 more
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American Journal of Physics, 2023 In the past 20 years, active matter has been a very successful research field, bridging the fundamental physics of nonequilibrium thermodynamics with applications in robotics, biology, and medicine.
Callegari, Agnese, +3 more
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Proliferating active matter. [PDF]
Nat Rev Phys, 2023 Published by Springer Nature ...
Hallatschek O +6 more
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Geometry-Induced Dynamics of Confined Chiral Active Matter [PDF]
, 2023 Controlling the motion of active matter is a central issue that has recently garnered significant attention in fields ranging from non-equilibrium physics to chemical engineering and biology.
Maeda, Yusuke T. +2 more
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Physical Review Letters, 2023 We reveal that the mechanical pulsation of locally synchronised particles is a generic route to propagate deformation waves. We consider a model of dense repulsive particles whose activity drives periodic change in size of each individual. The dynamics is inspired by biological tissues where cells consume fuel to sustain active deformation.
Yiwei Zhang, Étienne Fodor
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The “isothermal” compressibility of active matter [PDF]
The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2021 We demonstrate that the mechanically defined “isothermal” compressibility behaves as a thermodynamic-like response function for suspensions of active Brownian particles. The compressibility computed from the active pressure—a combination of the collision and unique swim pressures—is capable of predicting the critical point for motility induced phase ...
Austin R. Dulaney +2 more
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Europhysics Letters, 2022 Abstract Chiral active matter comprises particles which can self-propel and self-rotate. Examples range from sperm cells and bacteria near walls to autophoretic L-shaped colloids. In this perspective article we focus on recent developments in chiral active matter.
Liebchen, Benno, Levis, Demian
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A colloidal viewpoint on the sausage catastrophe and the finite sphere packing problem
Nature Communications, 2023 It is commonly believed that the most efficient way to pack a finite number of equal-sized spheres is by arranging them tightly in a cluster. However, mathematicians have conjectured that a linear arrangement may actually result in the densest packing ...
Susana Marín-Aguilar +5 more
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