Differently Shaped Hard Body Colloids in Confinement: From passive to active particles

Abstract

We review recent progress in the theoretical description of anisotropic hard colloidal particles. The shapes considered range from rods and dumbbells to rounded cubes, polyhedra and to biaxial particles with arbitrary shape. Our focus is on both static and dynamical density functional theory and on computer simulations. We describe recent results for the structure, dynamics and phase behaviour in the bulk and in various confining geometries, e.g. established by two parallel walls which reduce the dimensionality of the system to two dimensions. We also include recent theoretical modelling for active particles, which are autonomously driven by some intrinsic motor, and highlight their fascinating nonequilibrium dynamics and collective behaviour.

15 pages, 6 figures, EPJ ST (accepted)

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