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5 October 2015 Pattern formation for active particles on optically created ordered and disordered substrates (Presentation Recording)
Charles M. Reichhardt, Dipanjan Ray, Cynthia J. Reichhardt
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Proceedings Volume 9548, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XII; 95481I (2015) https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188586
Event: SPIE Nanoscience + Engineering, 2015, San Diego, California, United States
Abstract
There has been tremendous growth in the field of active matter, where the individual particles that comprise the system are self-driven. Examples of this class of system include biological systems such as swimming bacteria and crawling cells. More recently, non-biological swimmers have been created using colloidal Janus particles that undergo chemical reactions on one side to produce self-propulsion. These active matter systems exhibit a wide variety of behaviors that are absent in systems undergoing purely thermal fluctuations, such as transitions from uniform liquids to clusters or living crystals, pushing objects around, ratchet effects, and phase separation in mixtures of active and passive particles. Here we examine the collective effects of active matter disks in the presence of static or dynamic substrates. For colloids, such substrates could be created optically in the form of periodic, random, or quasiperiodic patterns. For thermal particles, increasing the temperature generally increases the diffusion or mobility of the particles when they move over a random or periodic substrates. We find that when the particles are active, increasing the activity can increase the mobility for smaller run lengths but decrease the mobility at large run lengths. Additionally we find that at large run lengths on a structured substrate, a variety of novel active crystalline states can form such as stripes, squares and triangular patterns.
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Charles M. Reichhardt, Dipanjan Ray, and Cynthia J. Reichhardt "Pattern formation for active particles on optically created ordered and disordered substrates (Presentation Recording)", Proc. SPIE 9548, Optical Trapping and Optical Micromanipulation XII, 95481I (5 October 2015); https://doi.org/10.1117/12.2188586
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KEYWORDS
Particles
Active optics
Crystals
Bacteria
Chemical reactions
Diffusion
Liquid crystals
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