Active and Adaptive: Reconfigurable Active Colloids with Internal Feedback and Communication Schemes

Project Information

ACTIVE_ADAPTIVE

Grant agreement ID: 101001514

DOI

10.3030/101001514

EC signature date 17 December 2020

Start date 1 May 2021

End date 30 April 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 997 718,00

EU contribution

€ 1 997 718,00

Coordinated by

EIDGENOESSISCHE TECHNISCHE HOCHSCHULE ZUERICH
Switzerland

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (17)

The 2025 motile active matter roadmap

Author(s): Gerhard Gompper, Howard A Stone, Christina Kurzthaler, David Saintillan, Fernado Peruani, Dmitry A Fedosov, Thorsten Auth, Cecile Cottin-Bizonne, Christophe Ybert, Eric Clément, Thierry Darnige, Anke Lindner, Raymond E Goldstein, Benno Liebchen, Jack Binysh, Anton Souslov, Lucio Isa, Roberto di Leonardo, Giacomo Frangipane, Hongri Gu, Bradley J Nelson, Fridtjof Brauns, M Cristina Marchetti, Frank
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 37, 2025, Page(s) 143501, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/adac98

Transition from scattering to orbiting upon increasing the fuel concentration for an active Janus colloid moving at an obstacle–decorated interface

Author(s): Carolina van Baalen; William E. Uspal; Mihail N. Popescu; Lucio Isa
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 5, 2023, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01079a

Density Modulations in Active Colloidal Systems through Orthogonal Propulsion Control and Sensory Delays

Author(s): Ueli Töpfer, Maximilian R. Bailey, Sanjay Schreiber, Federico Paratore, Lucio Isa
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 39210-39219, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c12596

Programmable Microscale Actuation of Hydrogels with Tunable Response via Printing on Particles

Author(s): Xueting Shen, Se-Hyeong Jung, Nick Stauffer, Steven van Kesteren, Lucio Isa
Published in: Advanced Materials Technologies, 2025, ISSN 2365-709X
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.26434/chemrxiv-2025-v2qsg

Fluorescence-activated cell sorting (FACS) for purifying colloidal clusters

Author(s): Steven van Kesteren; Pascal Diethelm; Lucio Isa
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 20, 2024, Page(s) 2881-2886, ISSN 1744-6848
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00122b

3-D rotation tracking from 2-D images of spherical colloids with textured surfaces

Author(s): Vincent Niggel; Maximilian R. Bailey; Carolina van Baalen; Nino Zosso; Lucio Isa
Published in: Soft Matter, 19 (17), Issue 2, 2023, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00076a

Modular Attachment of Nanoparticles on Microparticle Supports via Multifunctional Polymers

Author(s): Maximilian R. Bailey; Tobias A. Gmür; Fabio Grillo; Lucio Isa
Published in: Chemistry of Materials, 35 (9), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 0897-4756
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acs.chemmater.3c00555

Tunable assembly of confined Janus microswimmers in sub-kHz AC electric fields under gravity

Author(s): Carolina van Baalen, Laura Alvarez, Robert W. Style, Lucio Isa
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 5194-5203, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sm01511h

Steering self-organisation through confinement

Author(s): Araújo, Nuno A.M.; Janssen, Liesbeth M.C.; Barois, Thomas; Boffetta, Guido; Cohen, Itai; Corbetta, Alessandro; Dauchot, Olivier; Dijkstra, Marjolein; Durham, William M.; Dussutour, Audrey; Garnier, Simon; Gelderblom, Hanneke; Golestanian, Ramin; Isa, Lucio; Koenderink, Gijsje H.; Löwen, Hartmut; Metzler, Ralf; Polin, Marco; Royall, C. Patrick; Šarić, Anđela; et al.
Published in: Soft Matter, 19 (9), Issue 9, 2023, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000603774

Printing on Particles: Combining Two‐Photon Nanolithography and Capillary Assembly to Fabricate Multimaterial Microstructures

Author(s): Steven van Kesteren; Xueting Shen; Michele Aldeghi; Lucio Isa
Published in: Advanced Materials, 35 (11), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1521-4095
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202207101

Gating and tunable confinement of active colloids within patterned environments

Author(s): Carolina van Baalen, Stefania Ketzetzi, Anushka Tintor, Israel Gabay, Lucio Isa
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 3850-3858, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sm01512f

Steering self-organisation through confinement

Author(s): Nuno A. M. Araújo, Liesbeth M. C. Janssen, Thomas Barois, Guido Boffetta, Itai Cohen, Alessandro Corbetta, Olivier Dauchot, Marjolein Dijkstra, William M. Durham, Audrey Dussutour, Simon Garnier, Hanneke Gelderblom, Ramin Golestanian, Lucio Isa, Gijsje H. Koenderink, Hartmut Löwen, Ralf Metzler, Marco Polin, C. Patrick Royall, Anđela Šarić, Anupam Sengupta, Cécile Sykes, Vito Trianni, Idan T
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 19, 2024, Page(s) 1695-1704, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01562e

Modular assembly of microswimmers with liquid compartments

Author(s): Minghan Hu; Xueting Shen; Daniel Tran; Zhongqi Ma; Lucio Isa
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, 35 (43), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1361-648X
Publisher: IOPn Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ace871

Self-propelling colloids with finite state dynamics

Author(s): Steven van Kesteren; Laura Alvarez; Silvia Arrese-Igor; Angel Alegria; Lucio Isa
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 120 (11), Issue 1, 2023, ISSN 1091-6490
Publisher: United States National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2213481120

DNA-Based Replication of Programmable Colloidal Assemblies

Author(s): Steven van Kesteren, Pascal Diethelm, Se-Hyeong Jung, Lucio Isa
Published in: Small, 2024, Page(s) 2400180, ISSN 1613-6810
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202400180

Simulation and time series analysis of responsive active Brownian particles (rABPs) with memory

Author(s): Maximilian R Bailey, Fabio Grillo, Lucio Isa
Published in: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter, Issue 36, 2024, Page(s) 505102, ISSN 0953-8984
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1361-648x/ad7ac4

Active Colloidal Molecules with Dynamic Configurational Freedom

Author(s): Stefania Ketzetzi, Lorenzo Caprini, Vivien Willems, Laura Alvarez, Hartmut Löwen, Lucio Isa
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 29430-29439, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.5c07142

Thesis and dissertations (1)

Active, Adaptive, and Replicating Colloidal Clusters

Author(s): Steven van Kesteren
Published in: No journal title, 2023
Publisher: ETH Zurich
DOI: 10.3929/ethz-b-000625382