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Macroscopic active matter under confinement: dynamical heterogeneity, bursts, and glassy behavior in a few-body system of self-propelling camphor surfers
Marco Leoni, Matteo Paoluzzi, Christian Alistair Dumaup +5
We study a few-body system composed of self-propelling camphor surfers confined within a circular boundary. These millimeter-sized particles move in a regime where inertia and long…
Surfing and crawling macroscopic active particles under strong confinement -- inertial dynamics
Marco Leoni, Matteo Paoluzzi, Sarah Eldeen +5
We study two types of active (self-propelled) macroscopic particles under confinement: camphor surfers and hexbug crawlers, using a combined experimental, theoretical, and numerica…
Information and motility exchange in collectives of active particles
Matteo Paoluzzi, Marco Leoni, M Cristina Marchetti
We examine the interplay of motility and information exchange in a model of run-and-tumble active particles where the particle's motility is encoded as a bit of information that ca…
Cell motility, synchronization, and cell traction orientational order
M. Leoni
Suspensions of swimming micro-organisms provide examples of coordinated active dynamics. That has stimulated the study of a phenomenological theory combining synchronization and po…
Fractal aggregation of active particles
Matteo Paoluzzi, Marco Leoni, M Cristina Marchetti
We study active run-and-tumble particles with an additional two-state internal variable characterizing their motile or non-motile state. Motile particles change irreversibly into n…
Defect driven shapes in nematic droplets: analogies with cell division
Marco Leoni, Oksana V. Manyuhina, Mark J. Bowick +1
Building on the striking similarity between the structure of the spindle during mitosis in living cells and nematic textures in confined liquid crystals, we use a continuum model o…