Modeling active colloids: From active brownian particles to hydrodynamic and chemical fields

A Zöttl, H Stark - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Active colloids are self-propelled particles moving in viscous fluids by consuming fuel from
their surroundings. Here, we review the numerical and theoretical modeling of active …

AMEP: The active matter evaluation package for Python

L Hecht, KR Dormann, KL Spanheimer… - Computer Physics …, 2025 - Elsevier
Abstract The Active Matter Evaluation Package (AMEP) is a Python library for analyzing
simulation data of particle-based and continuum simulations. It provides a powerful and …

[HTML][HTML] Designing, synthesizing, and modeling active fluids

I Essafri, B Ghosh, C Desgranges, J Delhommelle - Physics of Fluids, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We review recent advances in the design, synthesis, and modeling of active fluids. Active
fluids have been at the center of many technological innovations and theoretical advances …

Molecular simulation of hopping mechanisms of nanoparticles in regular cross-linked polymer networks

BR Zhao, B Li - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
We use coarse-grained simulations to explore the diffusion mechanism of nanoparticles with
different sizes at various nanoparticle–polymer interactions in regular cross-linked polymer …

Enhanced rotational diffusion and spontaneous rotation of an active Janus disk in a complex fluid

M De Corato, P Martínez-Lera - Soft Matter, 2025 - pubs.rsc.org
Active colloids and self-propelled particles moving through microstructured fluids can
display different behavior compared to what is observed in simple fluids. As they are driven …

Self-propelled motors in complex fluids and as constituents of active materials

S Thakur, L Qiao, R Kapral - Europhysics Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Simulation has played an important part in studies of active matter systems, and this paper
considers some aspects of the use of stochastic models for the behavior of active particles in …

[HTML][HTML] Cargo transportation using an active polymer

N Jain, S Thakur - AIP Advances, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
One of the fundamental goals of bioinspired synthetic systems is to achieve enhanced and
controlled transport. Here, we demonstrate the transport of a colloidal cargo with an active …

Control of active polymeric filaments by chemically powered nanomotors

L Qiao, R Kapral - Physical Review Applied, 2022 - APS
Active materials with distinctive nonequilibrium properties have diverse materials science
applications. Active systems are common in living matter, such as the filament network in the …

[HTML][HTML] On the use of reactive multiparticle collision dynamics to gather particulate level information from simulations of epidemic models

ZUN Memon, K Rohlf - AIP Advances, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
This paper discusses the application of reactive multiparticle collision (RMPC) dynamics, a
particle-based method, to epidemic models. First, we consider a susceptible-infectious …

Collective Behavior in Inertial Active Matter

L Hecht - tuprints.ulb.tu-darmstadt.de
Active matter consists of particles which consume energy to convert it into directed motion.
Due to this local energy conversion, active matter is intrinsically out of equilibrium. This …