New experiments show how chaotic flow in 3D #LiquidCrystals can be stabilized when confined in spherical droplets. These results could have implications for harnessing similar flows in cells, smart materials, and other #ActiveMatter systems. 🔗

Happy to announce a new paper: "Artificial neurons made of active matter memristors" We find that an active chiral particle can generate spiking modes in artificial neurons. Exciting new possibilities ahead ✨️ . @softmatter @LboroScience #ActiveMatter

🎨🔬In our lab, science meets art! Vibrant colors& stunning shapes, our experiments are as beautiful as they are fascinating. Because science is art! . ✨Check the images captured by the team:.. #SciArt #SoftMatter #Microscopy #SyntheticCells #ActiveMatter

🚨New preprint out 👉In active ring suspensions, we uncover how alignment & entanglement team up to drive self-organization. 📄 nice collab JPMIranda @elocatelli86 CMicheletti @demian_levis @chavaleriani .#ActiveMatter #Polymers #StatMech

Why You Should Use Night Vision 👓. #activematter #video #gaming

New experiments demonstrate how confining 3D #LiquidCrystals stabilizes chaotic flows inside them. The mechanism could be useful for harnessing similar flows found in smart materials, living systems, and other types of #ActiveMatter. Read the paper:

Simulating pedestrian avoidance: The human-zombie game, Juan P. Oriana, German A. Patterson, and Daniel R. Parisi #LivingMatter #ActiveMatter

Collective behavior of self-steering active particles with velocity alignment and visual perception, Rajendra Singh Negi, Roland G. Winkler, and Gerhard Gompper #ActiveMatter #SoftMatter #StatisticalPhysics

On how active matter systems actually work .#ActiveMatter #BirdsFlock

Alignment-induced self-organization of autonomously steering microswimmers: Turbulence, clusters, vortices, and jets, Segun Goh, Elmar Westphal, Roland G. Winkler, and Gerhard Gompper #SoftMatter #ActiveMatter

DNA liquid droplet (Cyan) breakup due to active extensile stresses exerted by microtubule filaments (Red) on the surface. #activematter

The Field Phantom. The hunt has begun. #ActiveMatter #GamingCommunity #ShooterGames

Vehicle Variety 🚗. #activematter #ShooterGames #UpcomingGames

Stripe and bubble ratchets on asymmetric substrates, C. Reichhardt and C. J. O. Reichhardt #SoftMatter #ActiveMatter

Accumulation and depletion of E. coli in surfaces mediated by curvature, Benjamín Pérez-Estay, María Luisa Cordero, Néstor Sepúlveda, and Rodrigo Soto #ActiveMatter #Microswimmers @MNActiveMatter

Activity-induced droplet propulsion and multifractality. Authors: Nadia Bihari Padhan and Rahul Pandit. Learn more in #PhysRevResearch: #SoftMatter #ActiveMatter

Bidirectional zigzag growth from clusters of active colloidal shakers, Gaspard Junot, Andrés Javier Manzano González, and Pietro Tierno #ActiveMatter #SoftMatter

New in @PNASNews: We used passive tracers to decode bacterial baths in droplets! Our work introduces "bath diffusivity"—a key parameter for predicting transport properties in confined active matter systems 🦠⚡.#ActiveMatter #PNAS #SoftMatter #bacteria.

Check our newest paper, where Marangoni flow, amphiphiles and self-assembly turn into spontaneous orbiting of droplets at an air-water interface. Just out in Small @AdvSciNews. #selforganization #activematter #outofequilibrium.