Recently, the study of long, slender living worms has gained attention due to their unique
ability to form highly entangled physical structures, exhibiting emergent behaviors. These …

In living organisms, diffusing chemicals react with soft tissue to actuate a range of
mechanical actions, such as periodic pulsations or net motion. Inspired by this biological …

From proteins to chromosomes, polymers fold into specific conformations that control their
biological function. Polymer folding has long been studied with equilibrium thermodynamics …

Understanding the mechanisms governing the structure and dynamics of flexible polymers
like chromosomes, especially the signatures of motor-driven active processes, is of great …

In the present work, we study, by means of numerical simulations, the structural and
dynamical behavior of a suspension of active ring polymers in bulk and under lateral …

The large-scale organization of the genome inside the cell nucleus is critical for the cell's
function. Chromatin—the functional form of DNA in cells—serves as a template for active …

Filamentous cyanobacteria can show fascinating examples of nonequilibrium self-
organization, which, however, are not well understood from a physical perspective. We …

Whereas self-propelled hard discs undergo motility-induced phase separation, self-
propelled rods exhibit a variety of nonequilibrium phenomena, including clustering …

Polar activity is shown here to induce a progressive local deformation of linear polymer
chains, making a clear distinction between head and tail, while the overall chain …

The conformational and dynamical properties of isolated flexible active polar linear polymers
(APLPs) are studied analytically. The APLPs are modeled as Gaussian bead-spring linear …