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We report a technique to realize reconfigurable colloidal crystals by using the controlled motion of particle defects above an externally modulated magnetic substrate. The transport of particles is induced by applying a uniform rotating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-07-09 Pietro Tierno , Tom H. Johansen , Thomas M. Fischer

A stress-affected chemical reaction front propagation is considered utilizing the concept of a chemical affinity tensor. A reaction between an elastic solid and diffusing constituents, localized at the reaction front, is considered. As a…

Applied Physics · Physics 2024-05-10 Svetlana Petrenko , Alexander Freidin , Eric Charkaluk

Our current understanding of interstellar carbon fractionation hinges on the interpretation of astrochemical kinetic models. Yet, the various reactions included carry large uncertainties in their (estimated) rate coefficients, notably those…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-24 C. M. R. Rocha , H. Linnartz

We consider a reaction-diffusion system where some components react and diffuse on the boundary of a region, while other components diffuse in the interior and react with those on the boundary through mass transport. We establish criteria…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-12-31 Vandana Sharma , Jeff Morgan

Stochastic chemical systems with diffusion are modeled with a reaction-diffusion master equation. On a macroscopic level, the governing equation is a reaction-diffusion equation for the averages of the chemical species. On a mesoscopic…

Numerical Analysis · Mathematics 2009-03-06 Stefan Engblom , Lars Ferm , Andreas Hellander , Per Lötstedt

Chemical reactions involve the movement of charges, and this work presents a mathematical model for describing chemical reactions in electrolytes. The model is developed using an energy variational method that aligns with classical…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2023-11-02 Shixin Xu , Robert Eisenberg , Zilong Song , Huaxiong Huang

Colloidal particles can create reconfigurable nanomaterials, with applications such as color-changing, self-repairing, and self-regulating materials and reconfigurable drug delivery systems. However, top-down methods for manipulating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-07-26 Mark N. McDonald , Cameron K. Peterson , Douglas R. Tree

Ultrafast reaction processes take place when resonant features of nonlinear model systems are taken into account. In the targeted energy or electron transfer dimer model this is accomplished through the implementation of nonlinear…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-25 N. Almazova , S. Aubry , G. P. Tsironis

Modern potential energy surfaces have shifted attention to molecular simulations of chemical reactions. While various methods can estimate rate constants for conformational transitions in molecular dynamics simulations, their applicability…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2024-07-10 Simon Ghysbrecht , Luca Donati , Bettina G. Keller

We establish rigorous lower bounds on the speed of traveling fronts and on the bulk burning rate in reaction-diffusion equation with passive advection. The non-linearity is assumed to be of either KPP or ignition type. We consider two main…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Alexander Kiselev , Leonid Ryzhik

A colloidal dispersion droplet evaporating from a surface, such as a drying coffee drop, leaves a distinct ring-shaped stain. Although this mechanism is frequently used for particle self-assembly, the conditions for crystallization have…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2011-10-20 Álvaro G. Marín , Hanneke Gelderblom , Detlef Lohse , Jacco H. Snoeijer

A space discrete approximation to a highly nonlinear reaction-diffusion system endowed with a stochastic dynamical boundary condition is analyzed and the convergence of the discrete scheme to the solution to the corresponding continuum…

Probability · Mathematics 2025-07-15 Francesca Arceci , Francesco Carlo De Vecchi , Daniela Morale , Stefania Ugolini

We study hydrodynamic slowing-down of a particle moving in a temperature gradient perpendicular to a wall. At distances much smaller than the particle radius, $h\ll a$, lubrication approximation leads to the reduced velocity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-04-06 Alois Würger

We report an experimental investigation of the caging motion in a uniformly heated granular fluid, for a wide range of filling fractions, $\phi$. At low $\phi$ the classic diffusive behavior of a fluid is observed. However, as $\phi$ is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2009-11-11 Pedro M. Reis , Rohit A. Ingale , Mark D. Shattuck

We report a numerical investigation of two colloids immersed in a critical solvent, with the aim of quantifying the effective colloid-colloid interaction potential. By turning on an attraction between the colloid and the solvent particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2012-09-12 Nicoletta Gnan , Emanuela Zaccarelli , Francesco Sciortino

The kinematical characteristics of fragments and light particles observed in central highly fragmented nuclear collisions at intermediate energies are compared with the results of a model assuming that the initial momentum distribution of…

Nuclear Experiment · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Van Lauwe , D. Durand et al

Subdiffusion with reaction $A+B\rightarrow B$ is considered in a system which consists of two homogeneous media joined together; the $A$ particles are mobile whereas $B$ are static. Subdiffusion and reaction parameters, which are assumed to…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2017-04-05 Tadeusz Kosztołowicz

Self-chemophoresis is an appealing and quite successful interpretation of the motility exhibited by certain chemically active colloidal particles suspended in a solution of their "fuel": the particle has a phoretic response to…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-01-06 Alvaro Domínguez , Mihail N. Popescu

The reaction of volatile matter plays an important role in the process of bringing matter from the surface of the planet to the atmosphere. Therefore, by simulating the mixing and chemical reaction process of volatile matter in the…

Earth and Planetary Astrophysics · Physics 2023-01-06 Zihan Huang , Xuewei Yang

We study a two-component reaction-diffusion system in which one of the reaction terms becomes singularly large. Assuming that the initial data are nonnegative and mutually segregated, we prove that the solution converges to that of the heat…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2025-06-12 Yuki Tsukamoto