Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …

Heat-mediated optical manipulation

Z Chen, J Li, Y Zheng - Chemical reviews, 2021 - ACS Publications
Progress in optical manipulation has stimulated remarkable advances in a wide range of
fields, including materials science, robotics, medical engineering, and nanotechnology. This …

Statistical mechanics of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles

D Martin, J O'Byrne, ME Cates, É Fodor, C Nardini… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study the statistical properties of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles (AOUPs). In this
simplest of models, the Gaussian white noise of overdamped Brownian colloids is replaced …

Physics of microswimmers—single particle motion and collective behavior: a review

J Elgeti, RG Winkler, G Gompper - Reports on progress in …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Locomotion and transport of microorganisms in fluids is an essential aspect of life. Search
for food, orientation toward light, spreading of off-spring, and the formation of colonies are …

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 …

Chemically powered micro‐and nanomotors

S Sánchez, L Soler, J Katuri - … Chemie International Edition, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Chemically powered micro‐and nanomotors are small devices that are self‐propelled by
catalytic reactions in fluids. Taking inspiration from biomotors, scientists are aiming to find …

Dynamical clustering and phase separation in suspensions of self-propelled colloidal particles

I Buttinoni, J Bialké, F Kümmel, H Löwen, C Bechinger… - Physical review …, 2013 - APS
We study experimentally and numerically a (quasi-) two-dimensional colloidal suspension of
self-propelled spherical particles. The particles are carbon-coated Janus particles, which are …

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 …

Topographical pathways guide chemical microswimmers

J Simmchen, J Katuri, WE Uspal, MN Popescu… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
Achieving control over the directionality of active colloids is essential for their use in practical
applications such as cargo carriers in microfluidic devices. So far, guidance of spherical …

Structure and dynamics of a phase-separating active colloidal fluid

GS Redner, MF Hagan, A Baskaran - Biophysical Journal, 2013 - cell.com
We examine a minimal model for an active colloidal fluid in the form of self-propelled
Brownian spheres that interact purely through excluded volume. Despite the absence of an …