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cond-mat.soft2022★ 42 cited
Active Colloids in Harmonic Optical Potentials
Ivo Buttinoni, Lorenzo Caprini, Laura Alvarez +2
We study the motion of active patchy colloids in an optical trap using experiments, theory and numerical simulations. To achieve isotropic and harmonic confinement, we prototype mi…
cond-mat.soft2022★ 29 cited
Self-propelling colloidal finite state machines
Steven van Kesteren, Laura Alvarez, Silvia Arrese-Igor +2
Endowing materials with physical intelligence holds the key for a progress leap in robotic systems. In spite of the growing success for macroscopic devices, transferring these conc…