Recent experiments have led to active colloidal molecules, which aggregate from nonmotile
building blocks and acquire self-propulsion through their nonreciprocal interactions. Here …

Thanks to a constant energy input, active matter can self-assemble into phases with complex
architectures and functionalities such as living clusters that dynamically form, reshape, and …

Designing microscopic and nanoscopic self-propelled particles and characterising their
motion have become a major scientific challenge over the past few decades. To this …

Conspectus The assembly of complex structures from simpler, individual units is a hallmark
of biology. Examples include the pairing of DNA strands, the assembly of protein chains into …

The past two decades have seen a remarkable progress in the development of synthetic
colloidal agents which are capable of creating directed motion in an unbiased environment …

Like ordinary molecules are composed of atoms, colloidal molecules consist of several
species of colloidal particles tightly bound together. If one of these components is self …

We study experimentally and numerically the motion of a self-phoretic active particle in two-
dimensional loosely packed colloidal crystals at fluid interfaces. Two scenarios emerge …

Active matter systems—such as a collection of active colloidal particles—operate far from
equilibrium with complex inter-particle interactions that govern their collective dynamics …

Many types of active matter are deformable, such as epithelial cells and bacteria. To mimic
the feature of deformability, we built a model called an active colloidal cell (ACC), ie a …

Biological systems exhibit large-scale self-organized dynamics and structures which enable
organisms to perform the functions of life. The field of active matter strives to develop and …