Recently, the study of long, slender living worms has gained attention due to their unique
ability to form highly entangled physical structures, exhibiting emergent behaviors. These …

Active matter systems, which convert internal chemical energy or energy from the
environment into directed motion, are ubiquitous in nature and exhibit a range of emerging …

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 …

Efficient navigation through disordered, porous environments poses a major challenge for
swimming microorganisms and future synthetic cargo-carriers. We perform Brownian …

Living systems at all scales aggregate in large numbers for a variety of functions including
mating, predation, and survival. The majority of such systems consist of unconnected …

In the present work, we study, by means of numerical simulations, the structural and
dynamical behavior of a suspension of active ring polymers in bulk and under lateral …

The motion of nanoparticles in a polymer matrix is dictated by the intricate coupling of the
nanoparticles and surrounding polymers. Various length-and time-scale dependent features …

Some animals form transient, responsive and solid-like ensembles through dynamic
structural interactions. These ensembles demonstrate emergent responses such as …

We perform numerical simulations of isolated, partially active polymers, driven out-of-
equilibrium by a fraction of their monomers. We show that, if the active beads are all …

We investigate the aggregation and phase separation of thin, living T. tubifex worms that
behave as active polymers. Randomly dispersed active worms spontaneously aggregate to …