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The role of disorder in the motion of chiral swimmers in the presence of obstacles
Danne M. van Roon, Giorgio Volpe, Margarida M. Telo da Gama +1
The presence of obstacles is intuitively expected to hinder the diffusive transport of micro-swimmers. However, for chiral micro-swimmers, a low density of obstacles near a surface…
Substrate disorder promotes cell motility in confluent tissues
Diogo E. P. Pinto, Margarida M. Telo da Gama, Nuno A. M. Araujo
In vivo and in vitro cells rely on the support of an underlying biocompatible substrate, such as the extracellular matrix or a culture substrate, to spread and proliferate. The mec…
Effect of particle deformability on shear thinning in a 3D channel
Danilo P. F. Silva, Rodrigo C. V. Coelho, Margarida M. Telo da Gama +1
Soft particles suspended in fluids flowing through microchannels are often encountered in biological flows such as cells in vessels. They can deform under flow or when subject to m…
Wetting of a Solid Surface by Active Matter
Pedro Neta, Mykola Tasinkevych, Margarida Telo da Gama +1
A lattice model is used to study repulsive active particles at a planar surface. A rejection-free Kinetic Monte Carlo method is employed to characterize the wetting behaviour. The…
How to design cell-mediated self-assembled colloidal scaffolds
C. S. Dias, C. A. Custodio, G. C. Antunes +3
A critical step in tissue engineering is the design and synthesis of 3D biocompatible matrices (scaffolds) to support and guide the proliferation of cells and tissue growth. Most e…
Lattice-Boltzmann simulation of free nematic-isotropic interfaces
Rodrigo C. V. Coelho, Nuno A. M. Araújo, Margarida M. Telo da Gama
We use a hybrid method of lattice Boltzmann and finite differences to simulate flat and curved interfaces between the nematic and isotropic phases of a liquid crystal described by…
Nonequilibrium growth of patchy-colloid networks on substrates
C. S. Dias, N. A. M. Araújo, M. M. Telo da Gama
Patchy colloids with highly directional interactions are ideal building blocks to control the local arrangements resulting from their spontaneous self-organization. Here we propose…
Phase diagrams of binary mixtures of patchy colloids with distinct numbers of patches: The network fluid regime
Daniel de las Heras, José M. Tavares, Margarida M. Telo da Gama
We calculate the network fluid regime and phase diagrams of binary mixtures of patchy colloids, using Wertheim's first order perturbation theory and a generalization of Flory-Stock…
The nature of the phase transition in dipolar fluids
J. M. Tavares, J. J. Weis, M. M. Telo da Gama
Monte Carlo computer simulations of a quasi two dimensional (2D) dipolar fluid at low and intermediate densities indicate that the structure of the fluid is well described by an id…