Microorganisms can move in complex media, respond to the environment and self-organize.
The field of microrobotics strives to achieve these functions in mobile robotic systems of sub …

Robotics is a rapidly growing field, and the innovative idea to scale down the size of robots
to the nanometer level has paved a new way of treating human health. Nanorobots have …

Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This
has stimulated the new field of'active matter'in recent years, which focuses on the physical …

Active colloids are microscopic particles, which self-propel through viscous fluids by
converting energy extracted from their environment into directed motion. We first explain …

Active matter agents consume internal energy or extract energy from the environment for
locomotion and force generation. Already, rather generic models, such as ensembles of …

We study the collective motion of confined spherical microswimmers such as active colloids
which we model by so-called squirmers. To simulate hydrodynamic flow fields including …

Synthetic microswimmers are a class of artificial nano‐or microscale particle capable of
converting external energy into motion. They are similar to natural microswimmers such as …

Active colloids are small scale materials capable of producing enhanced motion within fluid
environments. The field of active colloids has grown rapidly over the last ten years and is …

A heterogeneous and dilute suspension of catalytically active colloids is studied as a
nonequilibrium analogue of ionic systems, which has the remarkable feature of action …

In this review we will focus on how magnetic fields can be used to manipulate the motion of
various micro-and nanostructures in solution. We will distinguish between ferromagnetic …