A levitated nonspherical nanoparticle in a vacuum is ideal for studying quantum rotations
and is an ultrasensitive torque detector for probing fundamental particle–surface …

Biological activity is often highly concentrated on surfaces, across the scales from molecular
motors and ciliary arrays to sessile and motile organisms. These 'active carpets' locally inject …

The dynamics of colloids and proteins in dense suspensions is of fundamental importance,
from a standpoint of understanding the biophysics of proteins in the cytoplasm and for the …

The physical approach of a small particle (virus, medical drug) to the cell membrane
represents the crucial first step before active internalization and is governed by thermal …

We analyze the rotational dynamics of spherical colloidal Janus particles made from silica
(SiO2) with a hemispherical gold/palladium (Au/Pd) cap. Since the refractive index …

The coupling between advection and diffusion in position space can often lead to enhanced
mass transport compared with diffusion without flow. An important framework used to …

We present an analytical calculation of the hydrodynamic interaction between two spherical
particles near an elastic interface such as a cell membrane. The theory predicts the …

Using a fully analytical theory, we compute the leading-order corrections to the translational,
rotational and translation–rotation coupling mobilities of an arbitrary axisymmetric particle …

Elastic confinements are an important component of many biological systems and dictate the
transport properties of suspended particles under flow. In this paper, we review the …

In this article we extend recent experimental developments [Rogers et al., Phys. Rev. Lett.,
2012, 109, 098305] by providing a suitable theoretical framework for the derivation of exact …