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Optimal face-to-face coupling for fast self-folding kirigami
Maks Pecnik Bambic, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Benjamin J. Walker +4
Kirigami-inspired designs can enable self-folding three-dimensional materials from flat, two-dimensional sheets. Hierarchical designs of connected levels increase the diversity of…
How does a hyperuniform fluid freeze?
Yusheng Lei, Ran Ni
All phase transitions can be categorised into two different types: continuous and discontinuous phase transitions. Discontinuous phase transitions are normally accompanied with sig…
Random organization and non-equilibrium hyperuniform fluids on a sphere
Yusheng Lei, Ning Zheng, Ran Ni
Random organizing hyperuniform fluid induced by reciprocal activation is a non-equilibrium fluid with vanishing density fluctuations at large length scales like crystals. Here we e…
The role of receptor uniformity in multivalent binding
Xiuyang Xia, Ge Zhang, Massimo Pica Ciamarra +2
Multivalency is prevalent in various biological systems and applications due to the superselectivity that arises from the cooperativity of multivalent binding. Traditionally, it wa…
Interplay between jamming and MIPS in persistent self-propelling particles
Jing Yang, Ran Ni, Massimo Pica Ciamarra
In living and engineered systems of active particles, self-propulsion induces an unjamming transition from a solid to a fluid phase and phase separation between a gas and a liquid-…
Comment on "Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in and "
Duyu Chen, Ran Ni
In this short commentary we provide our comment on the article "Explicit Analytical Solution for Random Close Packing in and " and its subsequent Erratum that are recent…
Entropy driven thermo-gelling vitrimer
Xiuyang Xia, Peilin Rao, Juan Yang +2
Thermo-gelling polymers have been envisioned as promising smart biomaterials but limited to their weak mechanical and thermodynamic stabilities. Here we propose a new thermo-gellin…
Duality,Hidden Symmetry and Dynamic Isomerism in 2D Hinge Structures
Qun-Li Lei, Feng Tang, Ji-Dong Hu +2
Recently, a new type of duality was reported in some deformable mechanical networks which exhibit Kramers-like degeneracy in phononic spectrum at the self-dual point. In this work,…
Unconventional rheological properties in systems of deformable particles
Anshuman Pasupalak, Shawn Khuhan Samidurai, Yanwei Li +3
We demonstrate the existence of unconventional rheological and memory properties in systems of soft-deformable particles whose energy depends on their shape, via numerical simulati…
Dynamical Clustering Interrupts Motility Induced Phase Separation in Chiral Active Brownian Particles
Zhan Ma, Ran Ni
One of the most intriguing phenomena in active matter has been the gas-liquid like motility induced phase separation (MIPS) observed in repulsive active particles. However, experim…
Self-Assembly of Isostatic Self-Dual Colloidal Crystals
Qun-Li Lei, Wei Zheng, Feng Tang +3
Self-dual structures whose dual counterparts are themselves possess unique hidden symmetry, beyond the description of classical spatial symmetry groups. Here we propose a strategy…
Effect of particle size distribution on polydisperse hard disks
Pablo Sampedro Ruiz, Ran Ni
Using Monte Carlo simulations, we systematically investigate the effect of particle size distribution on the phase behaviour of polydisperse hard disks. Compared with the commonly…
Entropy-Controlled Cross-Linking in Linker-Mediated Vitrimers
Qun-Li Lei, Xiuyang Xia, Juan Yang +2
Recently developed linker-mediated vitrimers based on metathesis of dioxaborolanes with various commercially available polymers have shown both good processability and outstanding…
Barrier-Controlled Non-Equilibrium Criticality in Reactive Particle Systems
Qun-Li Lei, Hao Hu, Ran Ni
Non-equilibrium critical phenomena generally exist in many dynamic systems, like chemical reactions and some driven-dissipative {reactive} particle systems. Here, by using computer…
Dynamic assembly of active colloids: theory and simulation
Zhan Ma, Mingcheng Yang, Ran Ni
Because of consuming energy to drive their motion, systems of active colloids are intrinsically out of equilibrium. In the past decade, a variety of intriguing dynamic patterns hav…
Effect of heavy impurities on the dynamics of supercooled liquids
Saurish Chakrabarty, Ran Ni
We study the effect of heavy impurities on the dynamics of supercooled liquids. When a small fraction of particles in the supercooled liquid is made heavier, they exhibit slower dy…
Linker-mediated self-assembly of mobile DNA-coated colloids
Xiuyang Xia, Hao Hu, Massimo Pica Ciamarra +1
Developing construction methods of materials tailored for given applications with absolute control over building block placement poses an immense challenge. DNA-coated colloids off…
The stability phase diagram of active Brownian particles
Pin Nie, Joyjit Chattoraj, Antonio Piscitelli +3
Phase separation in a low-density gas-like phase and a high-density liquid-like one is a common trait of biological and synthetic self-propelling particles' systems. The competitio…
Hydrodynamics of Random-Organizing Hyperuniform Fluids
Qunli Lei, Ran Ni
Disordered hyperuniform structures are locally random while uniform like crystals at large length scales. Recently, an exotic hyperuniform fluid state was found in several non-equi…
Frictional Active Brownian Particles
Pin Nie, Joyjit Chattoraj, Antonio Piscitelli +3
Frictional forces affect the rheology of hard-sphere colloids, at high shear rate. Here we demonstrate, via numerical simulations, that they also affect the dynamics of active Brow…
Self-assembled multi-layer simple cubic photonic crystals of oppositely charged colloids in confinement
Krongtum Sankaewtong, Qun-li Lei, Ran Ni
Designing and fabricating self-assembled open colloidal crystals have become one major direction in soft matter community because of many promising applications associated with ope…
Melting and re-entrant melting of polydisperse hard disks
Pablo Sampedro Ruiz, Qun-li Lei, Ran Ni
Because of long-wavelength fluctuations, the nature of solids and phase transitions in 2D are different from those in 3D systems, and have been heavily debated in past decades, in…
Non-Equilibrium Strongly Hyperuniform Fluids of Circle Active Particles with Large Local Density Fluctuations
Qun-li Lei, Massimo Pica Ciamarra, Ran Ni
Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter having vanishing long-wavelength density fluctuations similar to perfect crystals but without long-range order. Alt…
Entropy stabilizes floppy crystals of mobile DNA-coated colloids
Hao Hu, Pablo Sampedro Ruiz, Ran Ni
Grafting linkers with open ends of complementary single-stranded DNA makes a flexible tool to tune interactions between colloids,which facilitates the design of complex self-assemb…