Phase transitions of associative biomacromolecules

RV Pappu, SR Cohen, F Dar, M Farag, M Kar - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multivalent proteins and nucleic acids, collectively referred to as multivalent associative
biomacromolecules, provide the driving forces for the formation and compositional …

Social interactions for autonomous driving: A review and perspectives

W Wang, L Wang, C Zhang, C Liu… - Foundations and Trends …, 2022 - nowpublishers.com
No human drives a car in a vacuum; she/he must negotiate with other road users to achieve
their goals in social traffic scenes. A rational human driver can interact with other road users …

Topological active matter

S Shankar, A Souslov, MJ Bowick, MC Marchetti… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces
or motion at the microscale, leading to morphological features and transport properties that …

Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions

G Gardi, S Ceron, W Wang, K Petersen… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could
potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing …

Modeling active colloids: From active brownian particles to hydrodynamic and chemical fields

A Zöttl, H Stark - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Active colloids are self-propelled particles moving in viscous fluids by consuming fuel from
their surroundings. Here, we review the numerical and theoretical modeling of active …

Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …

Active nematics

A Doostmohammadi, J Ignés-Mullol… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Active matter extracts energy from its surroundings at the single particle level and transforms
it into mechanical work. Examples include cytoskeleton biopolymers and bacterial …

Computational models for active matter

MR Shaebani, A Wysocki, RG Winkler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Active matter, which ranges from molecular motors to groups of animals, exists at different
length scales and timescales, and various computational models have been proposed to …

The entropy-controlled strategy in self-assembling systems

X Zhang, X Dai, L Gao, D Xu, H Wan, Y Wang… - Chemical Society …, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Self-assembly of various building blocks has been considered as a powerful approach to
generate novel materials with tailorable structures and optimal properties. Understanding …

Cascades and transitions in turbulent flows

A Alexakis, L Biferale - Physics Reports, 2018 - Elsevier
Turbulent flows are characterized by the non-linear cascades of energy and other inviscid
invariants across a huge range of scales, from where they are injected to where they are …