Micro‐bio‐chemo‐mechanical‐systems: Micromotors, microfluidics, and nanozymes for biomedical applications

J Mujtaba, J Liu, KK Dey, T Li, R Chakraborty… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wireless nano‐/micromotors powered by chemical reactions and/or external fields generate
motive forces, perform tasks, and significantly extend short‐range dynamic responses of …

Interactions in active colloids

B Liebchen, AK Mukhopadhyay - Journal of Physics: Condensed …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The past two decades have seen a remarkable progress in the development of synthetic
colloidal agents which are capable of creating directed motion in an unbiased environment …

Phase diagram of active Brownian spheres: Crystallization and the metastability of motility-induced phase separation

AK Omar, K Klymko, T GrandPre, PL Geissler - Physical review letters, 2021 - APS
Motility-induced phase separation (MIPS), the phenomenon in which purely repulsive active
particles undergo a liquid-gas phase separation, is among the simplest and most widely …

Light, matter, action: Shining light on active matter

M Rey, G Volpe, G Volpe - ACS photonics, 2023 - ACS Publications
Light carries energy and momentum. It can therefore alter the motion of objects on the
atomic to astronomical scales. Being widely available, readily controllable, and broadly …

Synthetic electrically driven colloids: a platform for understanding collective behavior in soft matter

A Boymelgreen, J Schiffbauer, B Khusid… - Current Opinion in …, 2022 - Elsevier
The collective motion of synthetic active colloids is an emerging area of research in soft
matter physics and is important both as a platform for fundamental studies ranging from non …

Escape kinetics of self-propelled particles from a circular cavity

T Debnath, P Chaudhury, T Mukherjee… - The Journal of …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
We numerically investigate the mean exit time of an inertial active Brownian particle from a
circular cavity with single or multiple exit windows. Our simulation results witness distinct …

Selecting active matter according to motility in an acoustofluidic setup: Self-propelled particles and sperm cells

VR Misko, L Baraban, D Makarov, T Huang, P Gelin… - Soft Matter, 2023 - pubs.rsc.org
Active systems–including sperm cells, living organisms like bacteria, fish, birds, or active soft
matter systems like synthetic “microswimmers”–are characterized by motility, ie, the ability to …

Enzyme-driven micro/nanomotors: Recent advances and biomedical applications

Q Yang, Y Gao, L Xu, W Hong, Y She… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Micro/nanomotors (MNMs), both self-propelled actuators and external fields-
promoted machines, have joined forces in the past decade to accomplish versatile tasks …

Interaction of active janus colloids with tracers

K Singh, A Yadav, P Dwivedi, R Mangal - Langmuir, 2022 - ACS Publications
Understanding the motion of artificial active swimmers in complex surroundings, such as a
dense bath of passive particulate matter, is essential for their successful utilization as cargo …

Magnetic Bacteriophage‐Engineered Janus Micromotors for Selective Bacteria Capture and Detection

C Cuntín‐Abal, J Bujalance‐Fernández… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Herein, T4‐bacteriophage‐funcionalizated magnetic Janus micromotors are used
for the first time for highly selective Escherichia coli (E. coli) recognition and detection. The …