Interactions between fluid flow and elastic structures are important in many naturally
occurring and engineered systems. This review collects and organizes recent theoretical …

We review the literature on swimming in complex fluids. A classification is proposed by
comparing the length-and timescales of a swimmer with those of nearby obstacles …

One characteristic feature of soft matter systems is their strong response to external stimuli.
As a consequence they are comparatively easily driven out of their ground state and out of …

We study the swelling of a flexible linear chain composed of active particles by analytical
theory and computer simulation. Three different situations are considered: a free chain, a …

One of the recent frontiers of nanotechnology research involves machines that operate at
nano-and microscales, also known as nano/micromotors. Their potential applications in …

Synthetic microswimmers are envisioned to be useful in numerous applications, many of
which occur in tightly confined spaces. It is therefore important to understand how …

The chemotaxis signal transduction network regulates the biased random walk of many
bacteria in favorable directions and away from harmful ones through modulating the …

The equilibrium structure and dynamics of a single polymer chain in a thermal solvent is by
now well-understood in terms of scaling laws. Here, we consider a polymer in a bacterial …

In this review article, we focus on collective motion in externally driven colloidal
suspensions, as well as how these collective effects can be harnessed for use in microfluidic …

This manuscript is a summary of a set of lectures given at the Geilo School 2013 Soft Matter
Confinement: from Biology to Physics. It aims to provide an introduction to the …