Local polar and long-range isotropic activity assisted swelling and collapse dynamics of an active ring polymer

S Kumar, S Thakur - Macromolecules, 2023 - ACS Publications
The circular and ring structures in many synthetic or natural systems simultaneously
experience local and long-range forces. In this work, we use numerical simulations to …

Effects of active fluctuations on energetics of a colloidal particle: Superdiffusion, dissipation and entropy production

S Chaki, R Chakrabarti - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its …, 2019 - Elsevier
We consider a colloidal particle immersed in an active bath and derive a Smoluchowski
equation that governs the dynamics of the colloidal particle. We address this as active …

Collapse dynamics of chemically active flexible polymer

N Jain, S Thakur - Macromolecules, 2022 - ACS Publications
We investigate the structural and dynamical properties of a chemically active flexible
polymer chain immersed in a solvent bath by using hybrid molecular dynamics (MD) and …

Shape transformation and manipulation of a vesicle by active particles

C Wang, Y Guo, W Tian, K Chen - The Journal of chemical physics, 2019 - pubs.aip.org
Langevin dynamics simulations are employed to study the shape transformation of a two-
dimensional vesicle induced by active particles both inside and outside. We find that the …

Simulation of microswimmer hydrodynamics with multiparticle collision dynamics

A Zöttl - Chinese Physics B, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
In this review we discuss the recent progress in the simulation of soft active matter systems
and in particular the hydrodynamics of microswimmers using the method of multiparticle …

Diffusiophoretic Brownian dynamics: characterization of hydrodynamic effects for an active chemoattractive polymer

S Jaiswal, M Ripoll, S Thakur - Macromolecules, 2024 - ACS Publications
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 …

Effects of alignment activity on the collapse kinetics of a flexible polymer

S Paul, S Majumder, SK Das, W Janke - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The dynamics of various biological filaments can be understood within the framework of
active polymer models. Here we consider a bead-spring model for a flexible polymer chain …

Conformation and dynamics of an active filament in crowded media

R Yan, F Tan, J Wang, N Zhao - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The structural and dynamical properties of active filamentous objects under macromolecular
crowding have a great relevance in biology. By means of Brownian dynamics simulations …

Visible light driven catalytic gold decorated soft-oxometalate (SOM) based nanomotors for organic pollutant remediation

A Mallick, S Roy - Nanoscale, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
Visible light propelled nanomotors are a class of highly sought after active matter. Here we
report a gold decorated semiconductor and a soft-oxometalate based TiO2-{Mo7}-Au …

Morphological and dynamical properties of semiflexible filaments driven by molecular motors

N Gupta, A Chaudhuri, D Chaudhuri - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
We consider an explicit model of a semiflexible filament moving in two dimensions on a
gliding assay of motor proteins, which attach to and detach from filament segments …