The crumpling transition of active tethered membranes

MC Gandikota, A Cacciuto - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform numerical simulations of active ideal and self-avoiding tethered membranes.
Passive ideal membranes with bending interactions are known to exhibit a continuous …

Dynamical self-assembly of dipolar active Brownian particles in two dimensions

GJ Liao, CK Hall, SHL Klapp - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Based on Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulations, we study the dynamical self-assembly of
active Brownian particles with dipole–dipole interactions, stemming from a permanent point …

The coil–globule transition in self-avoiding active polymers

S Das, N Kennedy, A Cacciuto - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform numerical simulations of an active fully flexible self-avoiding polymer as a
function of the quality of the embedding solvent described in terms of an effective monomer …

Active transport in a channel: stabilisation by flow or thermodynamics

S Chandragiri, A Doostmohammadi, JM Yeomans… - Soft matter, 2019 - pubs.rsc.org
Recent experiments on active materials, such as dense bacterial suspensions and
microtubule–kinesin motor mixtures, show a promising potential for achieving self-sustained …

Algebraic correlations and anomalous fluctuations in ordered flocks of Janus particles fueled by an AC electric field

J Iwasawa, D Nishiguchi, M Sano - Physical Review Research, 2021 - APS
We study the polar collective dynamics of Janus colloidal particles fueled by an AC electric
field. When the density is high enough, the polar interactions between the particles induce a …

Mixing and demixing of binary mixtures of polar chiral active particles

B Ai, Z Shao, W Zhong - Soft Matter, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We study a binary mixture of polar chiral (counterclockwise or clockwise) active particles in a
two-dimensional box with periodic boundary conditions. Besides the excluded volume …

Effective forces between active polymers

MC Gandikota, A Cacciuto - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
The characterization of the interactions between two fully flexible self-avoiding polymers is
one of the classic and most important problems in polymer physics. In this paper we …

Deviations from blob scaling theory for active Brownian filaments confined within cavities

S Das, A Cacciuto - Physical review letters, 2019 - APS
Scaling arguments used to predict the radius of gyration of passive self-avoiding flexible
polymers have been shown to hold for polymers under the influence of active fluctuations. In …

Statistics of carrier-cargo complexes

R Wittmann, PA Monderkamp, H Löwen - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We explore the statistics of assembling soft-matter building blocks to investigate the uptake
and encapsulation of cargo particles by carriers engulfing their load. While the such carrier …

Binary mixtures of active and passive particles on a sphere

B Ai, B Zhou, X Zhang - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the cooperation and segregation dynamics of binary mixtures of active and
passive particles on a sphere. According to the competition between rotational diffusion and …