Nature Communications (Jul 2019)

Activity-controlled annealing of colloidal monolayers

  • Sophie Ramananarivo,
  • Etienne Ducrot,
  • Jeremie Palacci

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11362-y
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 10, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Active particles added to a material control its internal activity. Here the authors investigate such a system and control the annealing of a colloidal crystal, the dynamics of which depend on the persistence of the motion of active particles.