Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled
Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy …

Active systems are driven out of equilibrium by exchanging energy and momentum with their
environment. This endows them with anomalous mechanical properties that are reviewed in …

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

Pressure is the mechanical force per unit area that a confined system exerts on its container.
In thermal equilibrium, it depends only on bulk properties—such as density and temperature …

We derive a microscopic expression for the mechanical pressure P in a system of spherical
active Brownian particles at density ρ. Our exact result relates P, defined as the force per unit …

We derive the stationary probability distribution for a non-equilibrium system composed by
an arbitrary number of degrees of freedom that are subject to Gaussian colored noise and a …

In this review, we discuss recent advances in the self-assembly of self-propelled colloidal
particles and highlight some of the most exciting results in this field, with a specific focus on …

Disordered hyperuniform structures are an exotic state of matter having vanishing long-
wavelength density fluctuations similar to perfect crystals but without long-range order …

We perform optical-tweezers experiments and mesoscale fluid simulations to study the
effective interactions between two parallel plates immersed in bacterial suspensions. The …

We consider the effect of geometric confinement on the steady-state properties of a one-
dimensional active suspension subject to thermal noise. The random active force is modeled …