We develop a rigid multiblob method for numerically solving the mobility problem for
suspensions of passive and active rigid particles of complex shape in Stokes flow in …

Through billions of years of evolution, microorganisms mastered unique swimming
behaviors to thrive in complex fluid environments. Limitations in nanofabrication have thus …

Self-diffusiophoretic particles exploit local concentration gradients of a solute species in
order to self-propel at the micron scale. While an isolated chemically-and geometrically …

Catalytic swimmers have attracted much attention as alternatives to biological systems for
examining collective microscopic dynamics and the response to physico-chemical signals …

Chemically active colloids modify the concentration of chemical solutes surrounding them in
order to self-propel. In doing so, they generate long-ranged hydrodynamic flows and …

To spontaneously break their intrinsic symmetry and self-propel at the micron scale, isotropic
active colloidal particles and droplets exploit the nonlinear convective transport of chemical …

Phoretic particles exploit local self-generated physico-chemical gradients to achieve self-
propulsion at the micron scale. The collective dynamics of a large number of such particles …

Janus particles with the ability to move phoretically in self-generated chemical concentration
gradients are model systems for active matter. Their motion typically consists of straight …

Phoretic colloids self-propel thanks to surface flows generated in response to surface
gradients (thermal, electrical, or chemical), that are self-induced and/or generated by other …

Artificial microswimmers, or 'microbots', have the potential to revolutionise non-invasive
medicine and microfluidics. Microbots that are powered by self-phoretic mechanisms, such …