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We numerically investigated the Brownian motion of active Janus particles in a linear array of planar counter-rotating convection rolls at high P\'eclet numbers. Similarly to passive particles, active microswimmers exhibit advection…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-08-14 Pulak Kumar Ghosh , Fabio Marchesoni , Yunyun Li , Franco Nori

A longstanding goal in colloidal active matter is to understand how gradients in fuel concentration influence the motion of phoretic Janus particles. Here, we present a theoretical description of the motion of a spherical phoretic Janus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 Parvin Bayati , Stewart A. Mallory

To fully harness the potential of artificial active colloids, investigation of their response to various external stimuli including external flow is of great interest. Therefore, in this study, we perform experiments on SiO2-Pt Janus…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-11-23 Bishwa Ranjan Si , Preet Patel , Rahul Mangal

Platinum-coated polystyrene Janus particles exhibit a combination of stochastic and deterministic motion in hydrogen peroxide solutions, making them promising candidates for applications in micro-scale cargo transport, drug delivery, and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-03-27 Muhammad Haroon , Christopher Wirth

A two-dimensional complex plasma containing active Janus particles was studied experimentally. A single layer of micron-size plastic microspheres was suspended in the plasma sheath of a radio-frequency discharge in argon at low pressure.…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2022-12-14 Volodymyr Nosenko

By developing a molecular dynamics model of bacterial chemotaxis, we present the first investigation of tracer statistics in bacterial suspensions where chemotactic effects are considered. We demonstrate that the non-Gaussian statistics of…

Biological Physics · Physics 2017-05-02 Zihan Huang , Pengyu Chen , Guolong Zhu , Yufei Cao , Li-Tang Yan

A single light-driven Janus particle confined in a very thin oil droplet at an air--water interface displays intriguing dynamics. While laser activation induces rapid horizontal motion (1mm/s--1cm/s) by thermal Marangoni flow, the particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-09-29 Airi N. Kato , Kaili Xie , Benjamin Gorin , Jean-Michel Rampnoux , Hamid Kellay

Active matter classifies systems consisting of self-propelled units which convert the energy stored locally or extracted from their environment into directed motion. It has recently attracted considerable attention due to rich new physics…

Plasma Physics · Physics 2026-04-09 Volodymyr Nosenko

When colloidal droplets evaporate, suspended particles are redistributed by a competition between evaporation-driven capillary advection, interfacial Marangoni stresses and particle mobility, leading to diverse deposition patterns relevant…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-04-10 Meneka Banik , Ranjini Bandyopadhyay

We study an intriguing new type of self-assembled active colloidal polymer system in 3D. It is obtained from a suspension of Janus particles in an electric field that induces parallel dipoles in the particles as well as self-propulsion in…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-04-19 Xichen Chao , Katherine Skipper , C. Patrick Royall , Silke Henkes , Tanniemola B. Liverpool

Inert particles suspended in active fluids of self-propelled particles are known to often exhibit enhanced diffusion and novel coherent structures. Here we numerically investigate the dynamical behavior and self-organization in a system…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-07-04 Kyongmin Yeo , Enkeleida Lushi , Petia M. Vlahovska

We demonstrate differential dynamic microscopy and particle tracking for the characterization of the spatiotemporal behavior of active Janus colloids in terms of the intermediate scattering function (ISF). We provide an analytical solution…

Starting from a microscopic model for a spherically symmetric active Janus particle, we study the interactions between two such active motors. The ambient fluid mediates a long range hydrodynamic interaction between two motors. This…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2021-11-17 Parvin Bayati , Ali Najafi

Living microorganisms in confined systems typically experience an affinity to populate boundaries. The reason for such affinity to interfaces can be a combination of their directed motion and hydrodynamic interactions at distances larger…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2022-12-05 Maziyar Jalaal , Borge ten Hagen , Hai le The , Christian Diddens , Detlef Lohse , Alvaro Marin

We consider two systems of active swimmers moving close to a solid surface, one being a living population of wild-type \textit{E. coli} and the other being an assembly of self-propelled Au-Pt rods. In both situations, we have identified two…

We present a Brownian dynamics study of a 2d bath of active particles interacting among each other through usual steric interactions and, additionally, via non-reciprocal avoidant orientational interactions. We motivate them by the fact…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-24 Milos Knezevic , Till Welker , Holger Stark

Single-file transport, where particles cannot bypass each other, has been observed in various experimental setups. In such systems, the behaviour of a tracer particle (TP) is subdiffusive, which originates from strong correlations between…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2019-11-13 Alexis Poncet , Olivier Bénichou , Vincent Démery , Gleb Oshanin

Biopolymer networks having a meshwork topology, e.g., extracellular matrix and mucus gels, are ubiquitous. It is an open question to understand how self-propelled agents such as Janus colloidal particles diffuse through such a biopolymer…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-10-12 Yeongjin Kim , Sungmin Joo , Won Kyu Kim , Jae-Hyung Jeon

Using computer simulations in two dimensions we investigate the dynamics and structure of passive polymeric tracer with different topologies immersed in a low-density active particle bath. One of the key observations is that polymer exhibit…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-14 Ramanand Singh Yadav , Ralf Metzler , Rajarshi Chakrabarti

We study the axisymmetric interaction of two chemically active Janus particles. By relying on the linearity of the field equations and symmetry arguments, we derive a generic solution for the relative velocity of the particles. We show that…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-10-28 Babak Nasouri , Ramin Golestanian