The crumpling transition of active tethered membranes

MC Gandikota, A Cacciuto - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform numerical simulations of active ideal and self-avoiding tethered membranes.
Passive ideal membranes with bending interactions are known to exhibit a continuous …

Conformation and dynamics of an active filament in crowded media

R Yan, F Tan, J Wang, N Zhao - The Journal of Chemical Physics, 2023 - pubs.aip.org
The structural and dynamical properties of active filamentous objects under macromolecular
crowding have a great relevance in biology. By means of Brownian dynamics simulations …

Convolutional neural network-based colloidal self-assembly state classification

A Lizano, X Tang - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Colloidal self-assembly is a viable solution to making advanced metamaterials. While the
physicochemical properties of the particles affect the properties of the assembled structures …

Kinetically blocked self-assembly of colloidal strings with tunable interactions in magnetic fields

EV Yakovlev, IV Simkin, AA Shirokova… - The Journal of …, 2024 - pubs.aip.org
Tunable self-assembly driven by external electric or magnetic fields is of significant interest
in modern soft matter physics. While extensively studied in two-dimensional systems, it …