Out-of-equilibrium interactions and collective locomotion of colloidal spheres with squirming of nematoelastic multipoles.

ABSTRACT: Many living and artificial systems show similar emergent behavior and collective motions on different scales, starting from swarms of bacteria to synthetic active particles, herds of mammals, and crowds of people. What all these systems often have in common is that new collective properties like flocking emerge from interactions between individual self-propelled or driven units. Such systems are naturally out-of-equilibrium and propel at the expense of consumed energy. Mimicking nature by making self-propelled or externally driven particles and studying their individual and collective motility may allow for deeper understanding of physical underpinnings behind collective motion of large groups of interacting objects or beings. Here, using a soft matter system of colloids immersed into a li

SUBMITTER: Senyuk B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11067049 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature