Worm blobs as entangled living polymers: from topological active matter to flexible soft robot collectives

A Deblais, KR Prathyusha, R Sinaasappel, H Tuazon… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Recently, the study of long, slender living worms has gained attention due to their unique
ability to form highly entangled physical structures, exhibiting emergent behaviors. These …

Interfacial interaction of small molecular emulsifiers tea saponin and monoglyceride: Relationship to the formation and stabilization of emulsion gels

L Du, S Li, Q Jiang, Y Tan, Y Liu, Z Meng - Food Hydrocolloids, 2021 - Elsevier
The oil-water (OW) interface interaction of 1 wt% tea saponin (TS) and different
monoglyceride (MAG) concentrations (0%–5%) was studied and further explored its …

Camellia Saponin Based Oleogels by Emulsion-Templated Method: Preparation, Characterization, and in Vitro Digestion

S Li, P Li, Y Chen, Z Zhao, J Jiang… - ACS Food Science & …, 2023 - ACS Publications
An emulsion-template approach using different camellia saponin (CS) concentrations (0.5%,
1.0%, 1.5%, and 2.0%(w/w)) as oleogelators was adopted to prepare Oleogel samples. The …

Simulating squirmers with multiparticle collision dynamics

A Zöttl, H Stark - The European Physical Journal E, 2018 - Springer
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 …

Recombination statistics of nonionic surfactant micelles at equilibrium

Y Koide - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
We conduct dissipative particle dynamics simulations of nonionic surfactant solutions to
investigate the statistical properties of micellar recombination. We categorize the …

Transport of DNA in hydrophobic microchannels: A dissipative particle dynamics simulation

SK Ranjith, BSV Patnaik, S Vedantam - Soft Matter, 2014 - pubs.rsc.org
In this work, we numerically study a new means of manipulating single DNA chains in
microchannels. The method is based on the effect of finite slip at hydrophobic walls on the …

[PDF][PDF] Hydrodynamics of microswimmers in confinement and in Poiseuille flow

A Zöttl - 2014 - depositonce.tu-berlin.de
Microorganisms like bacteria, sperm cells or algae live in aqueous environments and their
motion is therefore governed by low-Reynolds-number hydrodynamics, but also influenced …

Dynamical phase of driven colloidal systems with short-range attraction and long-range repulsion

JX Chen, JW Mao, S Thakur, JR Xu… - The Journal of chemical …, 2011 - pubs.aip.org
We study the nonequilibrium dynamics of colloidal system with short-range depletion
attraction and screened electrostatic repulsion on a disordered substrate. We find a growth …

Nonaromatic hydrotropic cationic ammonium salts as a rheology modifier for an anionic/zwitterionic surfactant mixture

K Singh, Z O'Toole, A McLachlan, DG Marangoni - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
In this article, we report additive-induced micellar growth and rheology modification for
mixtures of anionic (sodium dodecyl sulfate, SDS) and zwitterionic (N-alkylated glycine …

Hierarchical self-assembly: Self-organized nanostructures in a nematically ordered matrix of self-assembled polymeric chains

S Mubeena, A Chatterji - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
We report many different nanostructures which are formed when model nanoparticles of
different sizes (diameter σ n) are allowed to aggregate in a background matrix of …