2 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Swimming-limited aggregation of bacteria in liquid crystals
Guillaume Sintès, Martyna Goral, Teresa López-León +2
Aggregation and fragmentation processes are widespread in engineering and the natural world. Here, we investigate a distinct colloidal aggregation mechanism in an active system of…
cond-mat.soft2025
Active bacterial baths in droplets
Cristian Villalobos-Concha, Zhengyang Liu, Gabriel Ramos +6
Suspensions of self-propelled objects represent a novel paradigm in colloidal science. In such active baths traditional concepts, such as Brownian motion, fluctuation-dissipation r…