Osmosis is a universal phenomenon occurring in a broad variety of processes and fields. It
is the archetype of entropic forces, both trivial in its fundamental expression–the van't Hoff …

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 …

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 …

Self-propelling chemical motors have thus far required the fabrication of Janus particles with
an asymmetric catalyst distribution. Here, we demonstrate that simple, isotropic colloids can …

The more we learn about the cytoplasm of cells, the more we realize that the cytoplasm is
not uniform but instead is highly inhomogeneous. In any inhomogeneous solution, there are …

We study the nonequilibrium interaction of two isotropic chemically active particles taking
into account the exact near-field chemical interactions as well as hydrodynamic interactions …

Modeling the couplings between active particles often neglects the possible many-body
effects that control the propulsion mechanism. Accounting for such effects requires the …

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

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 …

Various aspects of self-motility of chemically active colloids in Newtonian fluids can be
captured by simple models for their chemical activity plus a phoretic-slip hydrodynamic …