Active particles in complex and crowded environments

C Bechinger, R Di Leonardo, H Löwen… - Reviews of modern …, 2016 - APS
Differently from passive Brownian particles, active particles, also known as self-propelled
Brownian particles or microswimmers and nanoswimmers, are capable of taking up energy …

Ratchet effects in active matter systems

CJO Reichhardt, C Reichhardt - Annual Review of Condensed …, 2017 - annualreviews.org
Ratchet effects can arise for single or collectively interacting Brownian particles on an
asymmetric substrate when a net dc transport is produced by an externally applied ac …

Colloquium: Inclusions, boundaries, and disorder in scalar active matter

O Granek, Y Kafri, M Kardar, S Ro, J Tailleur… - Reviews of Modern …, 2024 - APS
Active systems are driven out of equilibrium by exchanging energy and momentum with their
environment. This endows them with anomalous mechanical properties that are reviewed in …

Transport and dispersion of active particles in periodic porous media

R Alonso-Matilla, B Chakrabarti, D Saintillan - Physical Review Fluids, 2019 - APS
The transport of self-propelled particles such as bacteria and phoretic swimmers through
crowded heterogeneous environments is relevant to many natural and engineering …

Inertial active ratchet: Simulation versus theory

M Muhsin, M Sahoo - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
We present the inertial active dynamics of an Ornstein-Uhlenbeck particle in a piecewise
sawtooth ratchet potential. Using the Langevin simulation and matrix continued fraction …

Dispersion of run-and-tumble microswimmers through disordered media

D Saintillan - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Understanding the transport properties of microorganisms and self-propelled particles in
porous media has important implications for human health as well as microbial ecology. In …

Collective ratchet effects and reversals for active matter particles on quasi-one-dimensional asymmetric substrates

D McDermott, CJO Reichhardt, C Reichhardt - Soft Matter, 2016 - pubs.rsc.org
Using computer simulations, we study a two-dimensional system of sterically interacting self-
mobile run-and-tumble disk-shaped particles with an underlying periodic quasi-one …

Brownian motors powered by nonreciprocal interactions

B Ai - Physical Review E, 2023 - APS
Traditional models for molecular (Brownian) motors predominantly depend on
nonequilibrium driving, while particle interactions rigorously adhere to Newton's third law …

Collective motion of pulsating active particles in confined structures

W Liu, W Zhu, B Ai - New Journal of Physics, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
The collective motion of pulsating active particles with periodic size contraction is
investigated in a two-dimensional asymmetric channel. Our findings reveal that changes in …

Chirality separation of mixed chiral microswimmers in a periodic channel

B Ai, Y He, W Zhong - Soft Matter, 2015 - pubs.rsc.org
Dynamics and separation of mixed chiral microswimmers are numerically investigated in a
channel with regular arrays of rigid half-circle obstacles. For zero shear flow, transport …