Leveraging collective effects in externally driven colloidal suspensions: Experiments and simulations

M Driscoll, B Delmotte - Current opinion in colloid & interface science, 2019 - Elsevier
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 …

Brownian dynamics simulations of biomolecular diffusional association processes

A Muñiz‐Chicharro, LW Votapka… - Wiley …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Brownian dynamics (BD) is a computational method to simulate molecular diffusion
processes. Although the BD method has been developed over several decades and is well …

Distribution of Single-Particle Resonances Determines the Plasmonic Response of Disordered Nanoparticle Ensembles

ZM Sherman, DJ Milliron, TM Truskett - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Understanding how colloidal soft materials interact with light is crucial to the rational design
of optical metamaterials. Electromagnetic simulations are computationally expensive and …

Hydrodynamics control shear-induced pattern formation in attractive suspensions

Z Varga, V Grenard, S Pecorario… - Proceedings of the …, 2019 - National Acad Sciences
Dilute suspensions of repulsive particles exhibit a Newtonian response to flow that can be
accurately predicted by the particle volume fraction and the viscosity of the suspending fluid …

Fast stokesian dynamics

AM Fiore, JW Swan - Journal of Fluid Mechanics, 2019 - cambridge.org
We present a new method for large scale dynamic simulation of colloidal particles with
hydrodynamic interactions and Brownian forces, which we call fast Stokesian dynamics …

Hydrodynamics of a twisting, bending, inextensible fiber in Stokes flow

O Maxian, B Sprinkle, CS Peskin, A Donev - Physical Review Fluids, 2022 - APS
In swimming microorganisms and the cell cytoskeleton, inextensible fibers resist bending
and twisting, and interact with the surrounding fluid to cause or resist large-scale fluid …

Integral-based spectral method for inextensible slender fibers in Stokes flow

O Maxian, A Mogilner, A Donev - Physical Review Fluids, 2021 - APS
Every animal cell is filled with a cytoskeleton, a dynamic gel made of inextensible fibers,
such as microtubules, actin fibers, and intermediate filaments, all suspended in a viscous …

[HTML][HTML] Large scale Brownian dynamics of confined suspensions of rigid particles

B Sprinkle, F Balboa Usabiaga, NA Patankar… - The Journal of chemical …, 2017 - pubs.aip.org
We introduce methods for large-scale Brownian Dynamics (BD) simulation of many rigid
particles of arbitrary shape suspended in a fluctuating fluid. Our method adds Brownian …

Buckling, crumpling, and tumbling of semiflexible sheets in simple shear flow

KS Silmore, MS Strano, JW Swan - Soft Matter, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
As 2D materials such as graphene, transition metal dichalcogenides, and 2D polymers
become more prevalent, solution processing and colloidal-state properties are being …

Driven dynamics in dense suspensions of microrollers

B Sprinkle, EB Van Der Wee, Y Luo, MM Driscoll… - Soft Matter, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
We perform detailed computational and experimental measurements of the driven dynamics
of a dense, uniform suspension of sedimented microrollers driven by a magnetic field …