4 papers
Template-free fabrication of reconfigurable magnetic micropillars and filaments through controlled Nanoflower assembly and actuation
Caterina Landi, Rosa Pérez-Garrido, Julio Marco Cuenca +4
Magnetic nanoflowers (MNFs), which exhibit large intrinsic magnetic losses and high specific absorption rates under clinically relevant alternating magnetic fields, highlight stron…
Active Matter as a framework for living systems-inspired Robophysics
Giulia Janzen, Gaia Maselli, Juan F. Jimenez +3
Robophysics investigates the physical principles that govern living-like robots operating in complex, realworld environments. Despite remarkable technological advances, robots cont…
Collective filament wrapping and nested spiral formation in active polydisperse systems
Caterina Landi, Giulia Janzen, Francesco Sciortino +3
We investigate a two-dimensional polydisperse suspension of self-propelled semiflexible filaments and reveal a collective wrapping mechanism that is absent in monodisperse systems.…
Self-Assembly of Active Bivalent Patchy Particles
Caterina Landi, John Russo, Francesco Sciortino +1
In the present work, with the intent of exploring the out-of-equilibrium polymerization of active patchy particles in linear chains, we study a suspension of active bivalent Browni…