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A Hitchhiker's Guide To Active Motion
Tobias Plasczyk, Paul A. Monderkamp, Hartmut Löwen +1
Intelligent decisions in response to external informative input can allow organisms to achieve their biological goals while spending very little of their own resources. In this pap…
Statistics of carrier-cargo complexes
René Wittmann, Paul A. Monderkamp, Hartmut Löwen
We explore the statistics of assembling soft-matter building blocks to investigate the uptake and encapsulation of cargo particles by carriers engulfing their load. While the such…
Colloidal smectics in button-like confinements: experiment and theory
René Wittmann, Paul A. Monderkamp, Jingmin Xia +5
Liquid crystals can self-organize into a layered smectic phase. While the smectic layers are typically straight forming a lamellar pattern in bulk, external confinement may drastic…
Network topology of interlocked chiral particles
Paul A. Monderkamp, Rika S. Windisch, René Wittmann +1
Self-assembly of chiral particles with an L-shape is explored by Monte-Carlo computer simulations in two spatial dimensions. For sufficiently high packing densities in confinement,…
Active particles using reinforcement learning to navigate in complex motility landscapes
Paul A. Monderkamp, Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl, Michael A. Klatt +1
As the length scales of the smallest technology continue to advance beyond the micron scale it becomes increasingly important to equip robotic components with the means for intelli…
Topological fine structure of smectic grain boundaries and tetratic disclination lines within three-dimensional smectic liquid crystals
Paul A. Monderkamp, René Wittmann, Michael te Vrugt +3
Observing and characterizing the complex ordering phenomena of liquid crystals subjected to external constraints constitutes an ongoing challenge for chemists and physicists alike.…
Topology of orientational defects in confined smectic liquid crystals
Paul A. Monderkamp, René Wittmann, Louis B. G. Cortes +3
We propose a general formalism to characterize orientational frustration of smectic liquid crystals in confinement by interpreting the emerging networks of grain boundaries as obje…
Viscotaxis: microswimmer navigation in viscosity gradients
Benno Liebchen, Paul Monderkamp, Borge ten Hagen +1
The survival of many microorganisms, like \textit{Leptospira} or \textit{Spiroplasma} bacteria, can depend on their ability to navigate towards regions of favorable viscosity. Whil…