Active colloids are microscopic particles, which self-propel through viscous fluids by
converting energy extracted from their environment into directed motion. We first explain …

Nano-and microscale motors powered by catalytic reactions exhibit collective behavior such
as swarming, predator–prey interactions, and chemotaxis that resemble those of biological …

Self-propelled nanomotors use chemical energy to produce directed motion. Like many
molecular motors they suffer strong perturbations from the environment in which they move …

The equilibrium structure and dynamics of a single polymer chain in a thermal solvent is by
now well-understood in terms of scaling laws. Here, we consider a polymer in a bacterial …

The collective dynamics of ensembles of chemically powered sphere dimer motors is
investigated. Sphere dimers are self-propelled nanomotors built from linked catalytic and …

The phoretic Brownian dynamics method is shown here to be an effective approach to
simulate the properties of colloidal chemophoretic based systems. The method is then …

Multiparticle collision dynamics is a modern coarse-grained simulation technique to treat the
hydrodynamics of Newtonian fluids by solving the Navier-Stokes equations. Naturally, it also …

The dynamics and pair trajectories of two self-propelled (active) colloids in a quiescent fluid
for both axisymmetric and asymmetric cases are reported. The autonomous motions of the …

The fabrication of synthetic self-propelled particles and the experimental investigations of
their dynamics have stimulated interest in self-generated phoretic effects that propel nano …

The behaviour of a non-spherical osmotic motor–an axisymmetric catalytic particle self-
propelling in a dilute dispersion of reactant particles–is considered. In contrast to a …