Nature Communications (May 2020)

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

  • Tobias Bäuerle,
  • Robert C. Löffler,
  • Clemens Bechinger

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-16161-4
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 11, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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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.