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20232026
most citedThe 2024 Motile Active Matter Roadmap

36 citations · 43 across the 7 of their papers we have counts for

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8 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Extracting hydrogel properties by watching hydrogel particles moving through solid ice

Yanxia Feng, Se-Hyeong Jung, Camillo Sirvinski +4

Strikingly, when hydrogel particles are embedded in ice in a temperature gradient, they move through the solid ice towards warmer temperatures, while swelling as they warm up. This…

cond-mat.soft2026

IceCAPA: patterning particles and microorganisms at a freezing front

Isabelle M. Feller, Jakob Paulsen, Muriel Scherer +2

The ability to precisely pattern micro- and nano-scale objects on surfaces is important for a range of different applications. For example, colloidal patterning has been used to cr…

cond-mat.soft2026

Resolving Light-Induced Structural Rearrangements in Responsive Microgels

Fabrizio Camerin, Megha Emerse, Gianpaolo Gallo +6

Optically-responsive microgels offer a versatile platform for designing adaptive soft materials with coupled light and thermal responsiveness. Control over the crosslinking degree…

cond-mat.soft2024

Sliding or Rolling? Characterizing single-particle contacts

Simon Scherrer, Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna, Vincent Niggel +4

Contacts between particles in dense, sheared suspensions are believed to underpin much of their rheology. Roughness and adhesion are known to constrain the relative motion of parti…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 36 cited

The 2024 Motile Active Matter Roadmap

Gerhard Gompper, Howard A. Stone, Christina Kurzthaler +29

Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental aspects of many living and engineering systems. Here, the scale of biological agents covers a wide range, from nanomotors, cytoskelet…

cond-mat.soft2024★ 1 cited

Characterizing hydrogel behavior under compression with gel-freezing osmometry

Yanxia Feng, Dominic Gerber, Stefanie Heyden +4

Hydrogels are particularly versatile materials that are widely found in both Nature and industry. One key reason for this versatility is their high water content, which lets them d…

cond-mat.soft2024

Effect of particle stiffness and surface properties on the nonlinear viscoelasticity of dense microgel suspensions

Jacopo Vialetto, Shivaprakash N. Ramakrishna, Lucio Isa +1

Particle surface chemistry and internal softness are two fundamental parameters in governing the mechanical properties of dense colloidal suspensions, dictating structure and flow,…

cond-mat.soft2023★ 6 cited

Janus microswimmers are poor hydrodynamic mixers

Maximilian Bailey, Dmitry Fedosov, Federico Paratore +3

The generation of fluid flows by autophoretic microswimmers has been proposed as a mechanism to enhance mass transport and mixing at the micro- and nanoscale. Here, we experimental…