4 papers
Topological chiral random walker
Saeed Osat, Ellen Meyberg, Jakob Metson +1
Understanding how biological and synthetic systems achieve robust function in noisy environments remains a fundamental challenge across the physical and life sciences. To connect r…
A Bioinspired Aquatic Machine Mimicking Water Caltrop
Yuanquan Liu, Thomas Speck, Isabella Fiorello
Plants are increasingly becoming a source of inspiration for robotics and engineers to develop bioinspired, adaptive, and multifunctional machines. In this study, we propose a bioi…
Response to dynamic shape changes in suspensions of hard rectangles
Denis Dertli, Thomas Speck
While the autonomous assembly of hard nanoparticles with different shapes has been studied extensively both in experiment and simulations, little is known about systems where parti…
Dynamic renormalization of scalar active field theories
Nikos Papanikolaou, Thomas Speck
We study Active Model B+, a scalar field theory extending the paradigmatic Model B for equilibrium coexistence through including terms that do not arise from an underlying free ene…