Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled
Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

Stochastic heat engines can be built using colloidal particles trapped using optical tweezers.
Here we review recent experimental realizations of microscopic heat engines. We first revisit …

In this review, we discuss recent advances in the self-assembly of self-propelled colloidal
particles and highlight some of the most exciting results in this field, with a specific focus on …

Background Species-specific differences in tolerance to infection are exemplified by the high
susceptibility of humans to enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) infection, whereas …

The conformational properties of flexible and semiflexible polymers exposed to active noise
are studied theoretically. The noise may originate from the interaction of the polymer with …

We study experimentally and numerically the dynamics of colloidal beads confined by a
harmonic potential in a bath of swimming E. coli bacteria. The resulting dynamics is well …

The possibility of exploiting motile microorganisms as tiny propellers represents a
fascinating strategy for the transport of colloidal cargoes. However, delivery on target sites …

We present a stochastic description of a model of N mutually interacting active particles in
the presence of external fields and characterize its steady state behavior in the absence of …

Active matter exhibits remarkable collective behaviour in which flows, continuously
generated by active particles, are intertwined with the orientational order of these particles …