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cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Active Brownian particles in power-law viscoelastic media

David Santiago Quevedo, Monica Conte, Marjolein Dijkstra +1

Many active particles are embedded in environments that exhibit viscoelastic properties. An important class of such media lacks a single characteristic relaxation timescale when su…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Machine-Learned Many-Body Potentials for Charged Colloids reveal Gas-Liquid Spinodal Instabilities only in the strong-coupling regime of Primitive Models

Thijs ter Rele, René van Roij, Marjolein Dijkstra

Past experimental observations of gas-liquid and gas-crystal coexistence in low-salinity suspensions of highly charged colloids have suggested the existence of like-charge attracti…

cond-mat.soft2025

From Knots to Crystals: Machine-Learned Potentials for Self-Assembling Topological Solitons in Liquid Crystals

Arunkumar Bupathy, Darian Hall, Ivan I. Smalyukh +3

Knotted fields in classical and quantum systems have long been recognized for their non-trivial topologies and particle-like behavior, but practical applications have been limited…

cond-mat.soft2025

Solid-angle based nearest-neighbor algorithm adapted for systems with low coordination number

Alptuğ Ulugöl, Frank Smallenburg, Laura Filion

Nearest-neighbor identification is central to the analysis of local structure in condensed matter systems. The solid-angle-based nearest-neighbor (SANN) algorithm is widely used of…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 1 cited

Surface Charge Relaxation Controls the Lifetime of Out-of-Equilibrium Colloidal Crystals

Laura Jansen, Thijs ter Rele, Marjolein Dijkstra

Interactions between charged colloidal particles are profoundly influenced by charge regulation and charge renormalization, rendering the effective potential highly sensitive to lo…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 4 cited

Machine learning many-body potentials for charged colloids in primitive 1:1 electrolytes

Thijs ter Rele, Gerardo Campos-Villalobos, René van Roij +1

Effective interactions between charged particles dispersed in an electrolyte are most commonly modeled using the Derjaguin-Landau-Verwey-Overbeek (DLVO) potential, where the ions i…

cond-mat.soft2025

Shaping boundaries to control and transport topological defects in colloidal nematic liquid crystals

Gerardo Campos-Villalobos, André F. V. Matias, Ethan I. L. Jull +2

Anisotropic rod-like particles form liquid crystalline phases with varying degrees of orientational and translational order. When confined geometrically, these phases can give rise…

cond-mat.soft2025

Cooperative ligand-mediated transitions in simple macromolecules

James L. Martin Robinson, Neshat Moslehi, Nikolaos Dramountanis +7

In biology, ligand mediated transitions (LMT), where the binding of a molecular ligand onto the binding site of a receptor molecule leads to a well-defined change in the conformati…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 4 cited

Freezing line of polydisperse hard spheres via direct-coexistence simulations

Antoine Castagnède, Laura Filion, Frank Smallenburg

In experimental systems, colloidal particles are virtually always at least somewhat polydisperse, which can have profound effects on their ability to crystallize. Unfortunately, ac…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 2 cited

Kinetic phase diagram for two-step nucleation in colloid-polymer mixtures

Willem Gispen, Peter G. Bolhuis, Marjolein Dijkstra

Two-step crystallization via a metastable intermediate phase is often regarded as a non-classical process that lies beyond the framework of classical nucleation theory (CNT). In th…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 3 cited

Neuromorphic Computing with Microfluidic Memristors

Nex C. X. Stuhlmüller, René van Roij, Marjolein Dijkstra

Conical microfluidic channels filled with electrolytes exhibit volatile memristive behavior, offering a promising platform for energy-efficient, neuromorphic computing. Here, we in…

cond-mat.soft2025★ 24 cited

Intelligent Soft Matter: Towards Embodied Intelligence

Vladimir A. Baulin, Achille Giacometti, Dmitry Fedosov +24

Intelligent soft matter stands at the intersection of materials science, physics, and cognitive science, promising to change how we design and interact with materials. This transfo…