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- Project A09: Coarse grained non-equilibrium dynamics of active soft matter
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- project-a09-coarse-grained-non-equilibrium-dynamics-of-active-soft-matter
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- Active colloids can self-propel in an unbiased solvent and provide a paradigmatic example of non-equilibrium soft matter. They have received enormous attention in recent years, partly for their rich ability to form dynamic structures such as living crystals, self-organized super-rotor assemblies, and travelling wave patterns. To a large extent, these dynamic structures are now known to hinge on the unusual hydrodynamic interactions among active colloids as well as on the phoretic cross-interactions which hinge on the action of a phoretic field (concentration, temperature) gradient due to a certain colloid on other colloids in the system. These interactions are in general long-ranged, confinement-dependent, non-reciprocal, non-instantaneous and non-pair-wise. However, despite their importance in generic experiments with active colloids, many key aspects of these interactions are still not well understood. To improve our corresponding understanding, the overarching goal of the present project is to develop a conceptually new and generic multiscale simulation method which describes large ensembles of active colloids including their full near- and far-field interactions at a resolution beyond existing continuum approaches.
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