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Active fluids are a class of non-equilibrium systems where energy is injected into the system continuously by the constituent particles themselves. Many examples, such as bacterial suspensions and actomyosin networks, are intrinsically…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-06-26 Elsen Tjhung , Michael E. Cates , Davide Marenduzzo

Active colloids are microscopic particles, which self-propel through viscous fluids by converting energy extracted from their environment into directed motion. We first explain how articial microswimmers move forward by generating…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-05-12 Andreas Zöttl , Holger Stark

We study a new type of 2D active material that exhibits macroscopic phases with two emergent broken symmetries: self-propelled achiral particles that form dense hexatic clusters, which spontaneously rotate. We experimentally realise active…

We study the dynamics of a driven spherical colloidal particle moving in a fluid with a broken rotational symmetry. Using a nematic liquid crystal as a model, we demonstrate that when the applied force is not aligned along or perpendicular…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-25 J. S. Lintuvuori , A. Würger

We study the shear-induced behavior of chiral (circle-swimming) and nonchiral swimmers in a planar channel subjected to Poiseuille (pressure-driven) flow. The swimmers are modeled as active Brownian spheroids, self-propelling with a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-02-17 Mohammad Reza Shabanniya , Amir Abbasi , Arghavan Partovifard , Ali Naji

Suspended colloidal particles interacting chemically with a solute are able to self-propel by autophoretic motion when they are asymmetrically patterned (Janus colloids). Here we demonstrate that the chemical anisotropy is not a necessary…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2013-06-28 Sebastien Michelin , Eric Lauga , Denis Bartolo

Flows with deformable interfaces are commonly controlled by applying an external field or modifying the boundaries that interact with the fluid, but realizing such solutions can be demanding or impractical in various scenarios. Here, we…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-03-28 Hugo França , Maziyar Jalaal

The flow of momentum and energy in a fluid is typically associated with dissipative transport coefficients: viscosity and thermal conductivity. Fluids that break certain symmetries such as mirror symmetry and time-reversal invariance can…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2022-02-07 Michel Fruchart , Ming Han , Colin Scheibner , Vincenzo Vitelli

Chiral active fluids break both time-reversal and parity symmetry, leading to exotic transport phenomena unobservable in ordinary passive fluids. We develop a generalized Green-Kubo relation for the anomalous lift experienced by a passive…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-26 Anthony R. Poggioli , David T. Limmer

Systems composed of strongly interacting self-propelled particles can form a spontaneously flowing polar active fluid. The study of the connection between the microscopic dynamics of a single such particle and the macroscopic dynamics of…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2018-03-02 Benjamin Loewe , Anton Souslov , Paul M. Goldbart

We introduce a theory of "odd viscodiffusive fluids," which exhibit three-dimensional odd transport phenomena through the coupling of viscous and diffusive transport. In these fluids, diffusive fluxes may arise from orthogonal velocity…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-11-08 Alhad Deshpande , Cory Hargus , Karthik Shekhar , Kranthi K. Mandadapu

Janus phoretic particles exploit chemical energy stored in their environment to self-propel. These active particles modify and respond to their hydrodynamic and chemical environments, thus giving them a sensibility to external flows and…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-05-15 Prathmesh Vinze , Sebastien Michelin

We study the orientation statistics of spheroidal, axisymmetric microswimmers, with shapes ranging from disks to rods, swimming in chaotic, moderately turbulent flows. Numerical simulations show that rod-like active particles preferentially…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2019-10-02 M. Borgnino , K. Gustavsson , F. De Lillo , G. Boffetta , M. Cencini , B. Mehlig

An interacting pair of chemotactic (anti-chemotactic) active colloids, that can rotate their axes of self-propulsion to align {parallel (anti-parallel)} to a chemical gradient, shows dynamical behaviour that varies from bound states to…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-08 Suropriya Saha , Sriram Ramaswamy , Ramin Golestanian

In this paper, we discuss microscopic models for chiral active particles, i.e., rotating active units that exhibit circular or spinning motion. While non-chiral active particles are typically governed by self-propulsion and conservative…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-10-20 Lorenzo Caprini , Alessandro Petrini , Umberto Marini Bettolo Marconi

Chirality, or the breaking of mirror symmetry, appears across all scales in nature, from molecular conformations to the dynamics of bacterial collectives. Environments composed of such symmetry-breaking constituents can give rise to…

Despite a mounting evidence that the same gradients which active colloids use for swimming, induce important cross-interactions (phoretic interaction), they are still ignored in most many-body descriptions, perhaps to avoid complexity and a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-20 B. Liebchen , H. Löwen

The growing interest in the non-equilibrium assembly of colloidal particles in active liquids is driven by the motivation to create novel structures endowed with tunable properties unattainable within the confines of equilibrium systems.…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2024-03-06 Pragya Kushwaha , Sayan Maity , Anjaly S. Menon , Raghunath Chelakkot , Vijayakumar Chikkadi

We present a theoretical study of transport properties of a liquid comprised of particles uist1:/home/sokrates/egorov/oldhome/Pap41/Submit > m abs.tex We present a theoretical study of transport properties of a liquid comprised of particles…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2015-05-18 Lindsey Ann Shall , Sergei A. Egorov

Active (i.e., self-propelled or swimming) particles moving through an isotropic fluid exhibit conventional diffusive behavior. We report anomalous diffusion of an active particle moving in an anisotropic, nematic background. Whilst the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2016-06-22 John Toner , Hartmut Löwen , Henricus H. Wensink