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The 2019 Motile Active Matter Roadmap
Gerhard Gompper, Roland G. Winkler, Thomas Speck +34
Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This has stimulated the new field of active matter in recent years, which focuses on the physical…
Direct Measurement of Lighthill's Energetic Efficiency of a Minimal Magnetic Microswimmer
Carles Calero, José García-Torres, Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz +3
The realization of artificial microscopic swimmers able to propel in viscous fluids is an emergent research field of fundamental interest and vast technological applications. For c…
Liquid-crystal enabled electrophoresis: Scenarios for driving and reconfigurable assembling of colloids
S. Hernàndez-Navarro, P. Tierno, J. Ignés-Mullol +1
We demonstrate several examples of driving and steering of colloids when dispersed in nematic liquid crystals. The driving mechanism is based on the principle of nonlinear electrop…
Reconfigurable Flows and Defect Landscape of Confined Active Nematics
Jérôme Hardoüin, Rian Hughes, Amin Doostmohammadi +5
Using novel micro-printing techniques, we develop a versatile experimental setup that allows us to study how lateral confinement tames the active flows and defect properties of the…
Probing the shear viscosity of an active nematic
Pau Guillamat, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Suraj Shankar +2
In vitro reconstituted active systems, such as the ATP-driven microtubule bundle suspension developed by the Dogic group, provide a fertile testing ground for elucidating the pheno…
Nematic Colloidal Swarms Assembled and Transported on Photosensitive Surfaces
Sergi Hernàndez-Navarro, Pietro Tierno, Jordi Ignés-Mullol +1
We demonstrate a novel method to assemble and transport swarms of colloidal particles by combining liquid crystals enabled electrophoresis and photo-sensitive surface patterning. C…