3 papers
cond-mat.stat-mech2025
Synthetic Quorum Sensing and Absorbing Phase Transitions in Colloidal Active Matter
Thibault Lefranc, Alberto Dinelli, Carla Fernández-Rico +3
Unlike biological active matter that constantly adapt to their environment, the motors of synthetic active particles are typically agnostic to their surroundings and merely operate…
cond-mat.soft2025
Attraction-enhanced emergence of friction in colloidal matter
Berend van der Meer, Taiki Yanagishima, Roel P. A. Dullens
How frictional effects emerge at the microscopic level in particulate materials remains a challenging question, particularly in systems subject to thermal fluctuations due to the t…
cond-mat.soft2025
Disentangling the Effects of Curvature and Misorientation on the Shrinkage Behavior of Loop-Shaped Grain Boundaries
Fabrizio Camerin, Susana MarÃn-Aguilar, Tim Griffioen +4
The material properties of polycrystals are strongly affected by the evolution and coarsening of their internal grain structures. Yet, studying this process is challenging due to t…