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 …

[HTML][HTML] A broad perspective to particle-laden fluid interfaces systems: From chemically homogeneous particles to active colloids

E Guzmán, F Martínez-Pedrero, C Calero… - Advances in Colloid and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Particles adsorbed to fluid interfaces are ubiquitous in industry, nature or life. The wide
range of properties arising from the assembly of particles at fluid interface has stimulated an …

[HTML][HTML] 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 …

A practical guide to active colloids: choosing synthetic model systems for soft matter physics research

W Wang, X Lv, JL Moran, S Duan, C Zhou - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Synthetic active colloids that harvest energy stored in the environment and swim
autonomously are a popular model system for active matter. This emerging field of research …

[HTML][HTML] Tunable self-healing of magnetically propelling colloidal carpets

H Massana-Cid, F Meng, D Matsunaga… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
The process of crystallization is difficult to observe for transported, out-of-equilibrium
systems, as the continuous energy injection increases activity and competes with ordering …

[HTML][HTML] Activity-controlled annealing of colloidal monolayers

S Ramananarivo, E Ducrot, J Palacci - Nature communications, 2019 - nature.com
Molecular motors are essential to the living, generating fluctuations that boost transport and
assist assembly. Active colloids, that consume energy to move, hold similar potential for man …

Collective forces in scalar active matter

T Speck - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Large-scale collective behavior in suspensions of active particles can be understood from
the balance of statistical forces emerging beyond the direct microscopic particle interactions …

Nonequilibrium dynamics of mixtures of active and passive colloidal particles

R Wittkowski, J Stenhammar, ME Cates - New Journal of Physics, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We develop a mesoscopic field theory for the collective nonequilibrium dynamics of
multicomponent mixtures of interacting active (ie, motile) and passive (ie, nonmotile) …

Orientation-dependent propulsion of triangular nano-and microparticles by a traveling ultrasound wave

J Voß, R Wittkowski - ACS nano, 2022 - ACS Publications
Previous studies on ultrasound-propelled nano-and microparticles have considered only
systems in which the particle orientation is perpendicular to the direction of propagation of …

[HTML][HTML] Entrainment dominates the interaction of microalgae with micron-sized objects

R Jeanneret, DO Pushkin, V Kantsler, M Polin - Nature communications, 2016 - nature.com
The incessant activity of swimming microorganisms has a direct physical effect on
surrounding microscopic objects, leading to enhanced diffusion far beyond the level of …