The study of active matter has revealed novel non-equilibrium collective behaviors,
illustrating their potential as a new materials platform. However, most work treat active matter …

In active matter systems, deformable boundaries provide a mechanism to organize internal
active stresses. To study a minimal model of such a system, we perform particle-based …

There is a recent surge of interest in the behavior of active particles that can at the same time
align their direction of movement and synchronize their oscillations, known as swarmalators …

We study a synthetic system of motile Escherichia coli bacteria encapsulated inside giant
lipid vesicles. Forces exerted by the bacteria on the inner side of the membrane are …

One of the most promising features of active systems is that they can extract energy from
their environment and convert it to mechanical work. Self propelled particles enable …

We investigate the collective behavior of sterically interacting self-propelled particles
confined in a harmonic potential. Our theoretical and numerical study unveils the emergence …

Mechanical pressure in active matter is generally not a state variable and possesses
abnormal properties, in stark contrast to equilibrium systems. We here show that the …

We study the absorption of self-propelled particles into a finite-size dense porous medium,
which is mimicked by an obstacle array. We find that, depending on the competition of the …

Abstract Using Brownian Dynamics simulations, we study effective interactions mediated
between two identical and impermeable disks (inclusions) immersed in a bath of identical …

The encapsulation of active particles, such as bacteria or active colloids, inside a droplet
gives rise to nontrivial shape dynamics and droplet motility. To understand this behavior, we …