Formation of stable and responsive collective states in suspensions of active colloids

Living organisms, like fish and bacteria, frequently change their pattern as a group to cope with environment. Here, Bäuerle et al. reproduce this phenomenon using a synthetic system of controllably interactive colloids to show their collective motions that indicates being close to a critical point....

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Main Authors: Tobias Bäuerle, Robert C. Löffler, Clemens Bechinger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2020-05-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16161-4