Topological active matter

S Shankar, A Souslov, MJ Bowick, MC Marchetti… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces
or motion at the microscale, leading to morphological features and transport properties that …

Micro/nanorobotic swarms: from fundamentals to functionalities

J Law, J Yu, W Tang, Z Gong, X Wang, Y Sun - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Swarms, which stem from collective behaviors among individual elements, are commonly
seen in nature. Since two decades ago, scientists have been attempting to understand the …

Reconfigurable magnetic microrobot swarm: Multimode transformation, locomotion, and manipulation

H Xie, M Sun, X Fan, Z Lin, W Chen, L Wang, L Dong… - Science robotics, 2019 - science.org
Swimming microrobots that are energized by external magnetic fields exhibit a variety of
intriguing collective behaviors, ranging from dynamic self-organization to coherent motion; …

Emergent behavior in active colloids

A Zöttl, H Stark - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
Active colloids are microscopic particles, which self-propel through viscous fluids by
converting energy extracted from their environment into directed motion. We first explain …

Active particles in complex and crowded environments

C Bechinger, R Di Leonardo, H Löwen… - Reviews of modern …, 2016 - APS
Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled
Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy …

Spontaneous velocity alignment in motility-induced phase separation

L Caprini, U Marini Bettolo Marconi, A Puglisi - Physical review letters, 2020 - APS
We study a system of purely repulsive spherical self-propelled particles in the minimal setup
inducing motility-induced phase separation (MIPS). We show that, even if explicit alignment …

Topological sound in active-liquid metamaterials

A Souslov, BC Van Zuiden, D Bartolo, V Vitelli - Nature Physics, 2017 - nature.com
Liquids composed of self-propelled particles have been experimentally realized using
molecular, colloidal or macroscopic constituents,,,,. These active liquids can flow …

Ion-exchange enabled synthetic swarm

C Wu, J Dai, X Li, L Gao, J Wang, J Liu, J Zheng… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Active matters are out-of-equilibrium systems that convert energy from the environment to
mechanical motion. Non-reciprocal interaction between active matters may lead to collective …

Magnetic Quincke rollers with tunable single-particle dynamics and collective states

R Reyes Garza, N Kyriakopoulos, ZM Cenev… - Science …, 2023 - science.org
Electrohydrodynamically driven active particles based on Quincke rotation have quickly
become an important model system for emergent collective behavior in nonequilibrium …

Self-organized dynamics and the transition to turbulence of confined active nematics

A Opathalage, MM Norton… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
We study how confinement transforms the chaotic dynamics of bulk microtubule-based
active nematics into regular spatiotemporal patterns. For weak confinements in disks …