[HTML][HTML] Dynamic and reconfigurable materials from reversible network interactions

MJ Webber, MW Tibbitt - Nature Reviews Materials, 2022 - nature.com
Polymer materials provide solutions to some of the most pressing environmental,
manufacturing and health-care challenges. Traditional thermoplastic and thermoset …

Physics of microswimmers—single particle motion and collective behavior: a review

J Elgeti, RG Winkler, G Gompper - Reports on progress in …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Locomotion and transport of microorganisms in fluids is an essential aspect of life. Search
for food, orientation toward light, spreading of off-spring, and the formation of colonies are …

[HTML][HTML] Matrix viscoelasticity controls spatiotemporal tissue organization

A Elosegui-Artola, A Gupta, AJ Najibi, BR Seo… - Nature materials, 2023 - nature.com
Biomolecular and physical cues of the extracellular matrix environment regulate collective
cell dynamics and tissue patterning. Nonetheless, how the viscoelastic properties of the …

Statistical mechanics of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles

D Martin, J O'Byrne, ME Cates, É Fodor, C Nardini… - Physical Review E, 2021 - APS
We study the statistical properties of active Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particles (AOUPs). In this
simplest of models, the Gaussian white noise of overdamped Brownian colloids is replaced …

Emergent behavior in active colloids

A Zöttl, H Stark - Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
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 gel physics

J Prost, F Jülicher, JF Joanny - Nature physics, 2015 - nature.com
The mechanical behaviour of cells is largely controlled by a structure that is fundamentally
out of thermodynamic equilibrium: a network of crosslinked filaments subjected to the action …

[HTML][HTML] A density-independent rigidity transition in biological tissues

D Bi, JH Lopez, JM Schwarz, ML Manning - Nature Physics, 2015 - nature.com
Cell migration is important in many biological processes, including embryonic development,
cancer metastasis and wound healing. In these tissues, a cell's motion is often strongly …

[HTML][HTML] Fluctuating hydrodynamics of chiral active fluids

M Han, M Fruchart, C Scheibner, S Vaikuntanathan… - Nature Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Active materials are characterized by continuous injection of energy at the microscopic level
and typically cannot be adequately described by equilibrium thermodynamics. Here we …

Active particles in complex and crowded environments

C Bechinger, R Di Leonardo, H Löwen… - Reviews of modern …, 2016 - APS
Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled
Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy …

Irreversibility in active matter systems: Fluctuation theorem and mutual information

L Dabelow, S Bo, R Eichhorn - Physical Review X, 2019 - APS
We consider a Brownian particle which, in addition to being in contact with a thermal bath, is
driven by fluctuating forces which stem from active processes in the system, such as self …