Phase transitions of associative biomacromolecules

RV Pappu, SR Cohen, F Dar, M Farag, M Kar - Chemical reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multivalent proteins and nucleic acids, collectively referred to as multivalent associative
biomacromolecules, provide the driving forces for the formation and compositional …

Social interactions for autonomous driving: A review and perspectives

W Wang, L Wang, C Zhang, C Liu… - Foundations and Trends …, 2022 - nowpublishers.com
No human drives a car in a vacuum; she/he must negotiate with other road users to achieve
their goals in social traffic scenes. A rational human driver can interact with other road users …

Microrobot collectives with reconfigurable morphologies, behaviors, and functions

G Gardi, S Ceron, W Wang, K Petersen… - Nature communications, 2022 - nature.com
Mobile microrobots, which can navigate, sense, and interact with their environment, could
potentially revolutionize biomedicine and environmental remediation. Many self-organizing …

Modeling active colloids: From active brownian particles to hydrodynamic and chemical fields

A Zöttl, H Stark - Annual Review of Condensed Matter Physics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Active colloids are self-propelled particles moving in viscous fluids by consuming fuel from
their surroundings. Here, we review the numerical and theoretical modeling of active …

Topological active matter

S Shankar, A Souslov, MJ Bowick, MC Marchetti… - Nature Reviews …, 2022 - nature.com
In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces
or motion at the microscale, leading to morphological features and transport properties that …

Active colloids as models, materials, and machines

KJM Bishop, SL Biswal, B Bharti - Annual Review of Chemical …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Active colloids use energy input at the particle level to propel persistent motion and direct
dynamic assemblies. We consider three types of colloids animated by chemical reactions …

Active nematics

A Doostmohammadi, J Ignés-Mullol… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Active matter extracts energy from its surroundings at the single particle level and transforms
it into mechanical work. Examples include cytoskeleton biopolymers and bacterial …

Computational models for active matter

MR Shaebani, A Wysocki, RG Winkler… - Nature Reviews …, 2020 - nature.com
Active matter, which ranges from molecular motors to groups of animals, exists at different
length scales and timescales, and various computational models have been proposed to …

Medical micro/nanorobots in complex media

Z Wu, Y Chen, D Mukasa, OS Pak, W Gao - Chemical Society Reviews, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Medical micro/nanorobots have received tremendous attention over the past decades owing
to their potential to be navigated into hard-to-reach tissues for a number of biomedical …

Machine learning for active matter

F Cichos, K Gustavsson, B Mehlig… - Nature Machine …, 2020 - nature.com
The availability of large datasets has boosted the application of machine learning in many
fields and is now starting to shape active-matter research as well. Machine learning …