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Bashan R, Oppenheimer N. Hydrodynamically induced aggregation of two dimensional oriented active particles. SOFT MATTER 2024; 20:3901-3909. [PMID: 38536066 DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01670f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/16/2024]
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We investigate a system of co-oriented active particles interacting only via hydrodynamic and steric interactions in a two-dimensional fluid. We offer a new method of calculating the flow created by any active particle in such a fluid, focusing on the dynamics of flow fields with a high-order spatial decay, which we analyze using a geometric Hamiltonian. We show that when the particles are oriented and the flow has a single, odd power decay, such systems lead to stable, fractal-like aggregation, with the only exception being the force dipole. We discuss how our results can easily be generalized to more complicated force distributions and to other effective two-dimensional systems.
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- Roee Bashan
- School of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Physics and Chemistry of Living Systems, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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- School of Physics and Astronomy and the Center for Physics and Chemistry of Living Systems, Tel Aviv University, Israel.
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Samatas S, Lintuvuori J. Hydrodynamic Synchronization of Chiral Microswimmers. PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS 2023; 130:024001. [PMID: 36706412 DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.130.024001] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 11/15/2022] [Accepted: 12/19/2022] [Indexed: 06/18/2023]
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We study synchronization in bulk suspensions of spherical microswimmers with chiral trajectories using large scale numerics. The model is generic. It corresponds to the lowest order solution of a general model for self-propulsion at low Reynolds numbers, consisting of a nonaxisymmetric rotating source dipole. We show that both purely circular and helical swimmers can spontaneously synchronize their rotation. The synchronized state corresponds to velocity alignment with high orientational order in both the polar and azimuthal directions. Finally, we consider a racemic mixture of helical swimmers where intraspecies synchronization is observed while the system remains as a spatially uniform fluid. Our results demonstrate hydrodynamic synchronization as a natural collective phenomenon for microswimmers with chiral trajectories.
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- Sotiris Samatas
- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LOMA, UMR 5798, F-33400 Talence, France
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- Univ. Bordeaux, CNRS, LOMA, UMR 5798, F-33400 Talence, France
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Burada PS, Maity R, Jülicher F. Hydrodynamics of chiral squirmers. Phys Rev E 2022; 105:024603. [PMID: 35291102 DOI: 10.1103/physreve.105.024603] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/20/2021] [Accepted: 02/01/2022] [Indexed: 06/14/2023]
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Many microorganisms take a chiral path while swimming in an ambient fluid. In this paper we study the combined behavior of two chiral swimmers using the well-known squirmer model taking into account chiral asymmetries. In contrast to the simple squirmer model, which has an axisymmetric distribution of slip velocity, the chiral squirmer has additional asymmetries in the surface slip, which contribute to both translations and rotations of the motion. As a result, swimming trajectories can become helical and chiral asymmetries arise in the flow patterns. We study the swimming trajectories of a pair of chiral squirmers that interact hydrodynamically. This interaction can lead to attraction and repulsion, and in some cases even to bounded states where the swimmers continue to periodically orbit around a common average trajectory. Such bound states are a signature of the chiral nature of the swimmers. Our study could be relevant to the collective movements of ciliated microorganisms.
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- P S Burada
- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Department of Physics, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur 721302, India
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- Max Planck Institute for the Physics of Complex Systems, Nöthnitzer Str. 38, 01187 Dresden, Germany
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Liebchen B, Mukhopadhyay AK. Interactions in active colloids. JOURNAL OF PHYSICS. CONDENSED MATTER : AN INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS JOURNAL 2021; 34:083002. [PMID: 34788232 DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ac3a86] [Citation(s) in RCA: 17] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/30/2021] [Accepted: 11/16/2021] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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The past two decades have seen a remarkable progress in the development of synthetic colloidal agents which are capable of creating directed motion in an unbiased environment at the microscale. These self-propelling particles are often praised for their enormous potential to self-organize into dynamic nonequilibrium structures such as living clusters, synchronized super-rotor structures or self-propelling molecules featuring a complexity which is rarely found outside of the living world. However, the precise mechanisms underlying the formation and dynamics of many of these structures are still barely understood, which is likely to hinge on the gaps in our understanding of how active colloids interact. In particular, besides showing comparatively short-ranged interactions which are well known from passive colloids (Van der Waals, electrostatic etc), active colloids show novel hydrodynamic interactions as well as phoretic and substrate-mediated 'osmotic' cross-interactions which hinge on the action of the phoretic field gradients which are induced by the colloids on other colloids in the system. The present article discusses the complexity and the intriguing properties of these interactions which in general are long-ranged, non-instantaneous, non-pairwise and non-reciprocal and which may serve as key ingredients for the design of future nonequilibrium colloidal materials. Besides providing a brief overview on the state of the art of our understanding of these interactions a key aim of this review is to emphasize open key questions and corresponding open challenges.
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- Benno Liebchen
- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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- Institute for Condensed Matter Physics, Technische Universität Darmstadt, 64289 Darmstadt, Germany
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Liao GJ, Klapp SHL. Emergent vortices and phase separation in systems of chiral active particles with dipolar interactions. SOFT MATTER 2021; 17:6833-6847. [PMID: 34223596 DOI: 10.1039/d1sm00545f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/13/2023]
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Using Brownian dynamics (BD) simulations we investigate the self-organization of a monolayer of chiral active particles with dipolar interactions. Each particle is driven by both, translational and rotational self-propulsion, and carries a permanent point dipole moment at its center. The direction of the translational propulsion for each particle is chosen to be parallel to its dipole moment. Simulations are performed at high dipolar coupling strength and a density below that related to motility-induced phase separation in simple active Brownian particles. Despite this restriction, we observe a wealth of phenomena including formation of two types of vortices, phase separation, and flocking transitions. To understand the appearance and disappearance of vortices in the many-particle system, we further investigate the dynamics of simple ring structures under the impact of self-propulsion.
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- Guo-Jun Liao
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany.
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany.
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An effective and efficient model of the near-field hydrodynamic interactions for active suspensions of bacteria. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2021; 118:2100145118. [PMID: 34260387 PMCID: PMC8285906 DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2100145118] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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Active suspensions of microswimmers demonstrate novel emergent behaviors (self-organizations, active turbulence, etc.) on macroscopic length scales. For such systems with, minimally, thousands of microswimmers, direct numerical simulations of the hydrodynamic interactions are computationally infeasible, and reduced models are needed. We demonstrated that existing models are not satisfactory in describing the hydrodynamic interactions for microswimmers in close proximity with even qualitatively erroneous predictions, indicating a pressing need for an adequate model. We propose a model that is both physically effective and computationally efficient in describing such hydrodynamics. The main novelty of our model is the description of hydrodynamic interactions through a resistance tensor, as opposed to an effective steric interaction in existing models. Near-field hydrodynamic interactions in active fluids are essential to determine many important emergent behaviors observed, but have not been successfully modeled so far. In this work, we propose an effective model capturing the essence of the near-field hydrodynamic interactions through a tensorial coefficient of resistance, validated numerically by a pedagogic model system consisting of an Escherichia coli bacterium and a passive sphere. In a critical test case that studies the scattering angle of the bacterium–sphere pair dynamics, we prove that the near-field hydrodynamics can make a qualitative difference even for this simple two-body system: Calculations based on the proposed model reveal a region in parameter space where the bacterium is trapped by the passive sphere, a phenomenon that is regularly observed in experiments but cannot be explained by any existing model. In the end, we demonstrate that our model also leads to efficient simulation of active fluids with tens of thousands of bacteria, sufficiently large for investigations of many emergent behaviors.
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Popescu MN. Chemically Active Particles: From One to Few on the Way to Many. LANGMUIR : THE ACS JOURNAL OF SURFACES AND COLLOIDS 2020; 36:6861-6870. [PMID: 32233489 PMCID: PMC7331135 DOI: 10.1021/acs.langmuir.9b03973] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/28/2019] [Revised: 04/01/2020] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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Chemically active particles suspended in a liquid solution can achieve self-motility by locally changing the chemical composition of the solution via catalytic reactions at their surfaces. They operate intrinsically out of equilibrium, continuously extracting free energy from the environment to power the dissipative self-motility. The effective interactions involving active particles are, in general, nonreciprocal and anisotropic, even if the particles have simple shapes (e.g., Janus spheres). Accordingly, for chemically active particles a very rich behavior of collective motion and self-assembly may be expected to emerge, including phenomena such as microphase separation in the form of kinetically stable, finite-sized aggregates. Here, I succinctly review a number of recent experimental studies that demonstrate the self-assembly of structures, involving chemically active Janus particles, which exhibit various patterns of motion. These examples illustrate concepts such as "motors made out of motors" (as suggestively named by Fischer [Fischer, P. Nat. Phys. 2018, 14, 1072]). The dynamics of assembly and structure formation observed in these systems can provide benchmark, in-depth testing of the current understanding of motion and effective interactions produced by chemical activity. Finally, one notes that these significant achievements are likely just the beginning of the field. Recently reported particles endowed with time-dependent chemical activity or switchable reaction mechanisms open the way for exciting developments, such as periodic reshaping of self-assembled structures based on man-made internal clocks.
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Liao GJ, Hall CK, Klapp SHL. Dynamical self-assembly of dipolar active Brownian particles in two dimensions. SOFT MATTER 2020; 16:2208-2223. [PMID: 32090218 DOI: 10.1039/c9sm01539f] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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Based on Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulations, we study the dynamical self-assembly of active Brownian particles with dipole-dipole interactions, stemming from a permanent point dipole at the particle center. The propulsion direction of each particle is chosen to be parallel to its dipole moment. We explore a wide range of motilities and dipolar coupling strengths and characterize the corresponding behavior based on several order parameters. At low densities and low motilities, the most important structural phenomenon is the aggregation of the dipolar particles into chains. Upon increasing the particle motility, these chain-like structures break, and the system transforms into a weakly correlated isotropic fluid. At high densities, we observe that the motility-induced phase separation is strongly suppressed by the dipolar coupling. Once the dipolar coupling dominates the thermal energy, the phase separation disappears, and the system rather displays a flocking state, where particles form giant clusters and move collective along one direction. We provide arguments for the emergence of the flocking behavior, which is absent in the passive dipolar system.
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- Guo-Jun Liao
- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany.
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- Department of Chemical & Biomolecular Engineering, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC 27695, USA
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- Institut für Theoretische Physik, Technische Universität Berlin, Hardenbergstr. 36, D-10623 Berlin, Germany.
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Napolitano S. Topical Issue on Dielectric Spectroscopy Applied to Soft Matter. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2020; 43:4. [PMID: 31974681 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2020-11929-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/20/2020] [Accepted: 01/20/2020] [Indexed: 06/10/2023]
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- Simone Napolitano
- Laboratory of Polymer and Soft Matter Dynamics, Experimental Soft Matter and Thermal Physics, Faculté des Sciences, Université libre de Bruxelles, Boulevard du Triomphe, 1050, Bruxelles, Belgium
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We investigate the self-propulsive motion of a drop containing an active polar field. The drop demonstrates spontaneous symmetry breaking from a uniform orientational order into a splay or bend instability depending on the types of active stress, namely, contractile or extensile, respectively. We develop an analytical theory of the mechanism of this instability, which has been observed only in numerical simulations. We show that both contractile and extensile active stresses result in the instability and self-propulsive motion. We also discuss asymmetry between contractile and extensile stresses and show that extensile active stress generates chaotic motion even under a simple model of the polarity field coupled with motion and deformation of the drop.
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- Natsuhiko Yoshinaga
- WPI-Advanced Institute for Materials Research, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8577, Japan and MathAM-OIL, AIST, Sendai 980-8577, Japan
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Rovigatti L, Romano F, Russo J. Topical Issue on Advances in Computational Methods for Soft Matter Systems. THE EUROPEAN PHYSICAL JOURNAL. E, SOFT MATTER 2018; 41:98. [PMID: 30143882 DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2018-11695-6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2018] [Accepted: 08/24/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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- Lorenzo Rovigatti
- CNR-ISC, Uos Sapienza, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
- Dipartimento di Fisica, Sapienza Università di Roma, Piazzale A. Moro 2, 00185, Roma, Italy
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- Dipartimento di Scienze Molecolari e Nanosistemi, Università Ca' Foscari di Venezia, Via Torino 155, 30172, Venezia Mestre, Italy
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- School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, BS8 1TW, Bristol, UK
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