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De novo emergence of metabolically active protocells
Nayan Chakraborty, Shashi Thutupalli
A continuous route from a disordered soup of simple chemical feedstocks to a functional protocell -- a compartment that metabolizes, grows, and propagates -- remains elusive. Here,…
Explosive dispersal of non-motile microbes through metabolic buoyancy
Jimreeves David, Shashi Thutupalli
For non-motile microorganisms, spatial expansion in quiescent fluids is presumed to be limited by diffusion. We report that microbial colonies can explosively circumvent this const…
Temperature switchable self-propulsion activity of liquid crystalline microdroplets
Manoj Kumar, Siddharth Sane, Aniruddh Murali +1
We report on a switchable emulsion droplet microswimmer by utilizing a temperature-dependent transition of the droplet phase. The droplets, made from a liquid crystalline (LC) smec…
Rigid flocks, undulatory gaits, and chiral foldamers in a chemically active polymer
Arvin Gopal Subramaniam, Manoj Kumar, Shashi Thutupalli +1
Active matter systems - such as a collection of active colloidal particles - operate far from equilibrium with complex inter-particle interactions that govern their collective dyna…
Emergent dynamics due to chemo-hydrodynamic self-interactions in active polymers
Manoj Kumar, Aniruddh Murali, Arvin Gopal Subramaniam +2
The field of synthetic active matter has, thus far, been led by efforts to create point-like, isolated (yet interacting) self-propelled objects (\emph{e.g.} colloids, droplets, mic…
Active ploughing through a compressible viscoelastic fluid: Unjamming and emergent nonreciprocity
Jyoti Prasad Banerjee, Rituparno Mandal, Deb Sankar Banerjee +2
A dilute suspension of active Brownian particles in a dense compressible viscoelastic fluid, forms a natural setting to study the emergence of nonreciprocity during a dynamical pha…