Active Matter: From Fundamental Science to Technological Applications

Project Information

ActiveMatter

Grant agreement ID: 812780

DOI

10.3030/812780

Project closed

EC signature date 10 May 2019

Start date 1 September 2019

End date 29 February 2024

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions

Total cost

€ 4 012 080,12

EU contribution

€ 4 012 080,12

Coordinated by

GOETEBORGS UNIVERSITET
Sweden

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Links to deliverables and publications from FP7 projects, as well as links to some specific result types such as dataset and software, are dynamically retrieved from OpenAIRE .

Deliverables

Other (3)

Report on the assessment of the commercial and industrial potential of all ITN projects
Report on ActiveMatter support material made available for high-school teacher training
Report on ActiveMatter prize for the best proposed game or toy inspired by active matter

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Website and social media interfaces

Documents, reports (14)

Report on the powering by active matter, comparing theory and experiments
Report on the crystallization of active particles
Report on the experiments on active particles in crowded and complex environments and comparison with theory

Report on the experiments on active particles in crowded and complex environmentsand comparison with theory

Report on the finalization of the interdisciplinary and interactive lecturing material
Report on the scalability of the sequential capillarity-assisted assembly
Report on final press release, attributed awards and all public relevant information
Report on collected and structured training material to allow for future joint graduate programs
Report on the use of acoustic fields to control active particles
Report on the clustering behavior of anisotropic active particles
Report on preliminary version of collected training material (also for future joint graduate program)
Report on comparison of theory and experiments about the motion of nanoswimmers
Report on theoretical approaches to model active motion on the nanoscale
Report on the fabrication of microparticles with complex shapes and functionalities
Draft of the book on active matter

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (31)

Optically driven Janus microengine with full orbital motion control

Author(s): David Bronte Ciriza, Agnese Callegari, Maria Grazia Donato, Berk Çiçek, Alessandro Magazzù, Iryna Kasianiuk, Denis Kasyanyuk, Falko Schmidt, Antonino Foti, Pietro G Gucciardi, Giovanni Volpe, Maurizio Lanza, Luca Biancofiore, Onofrio M Maragò
Published in: ACS photonics, 2023, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.3c00630

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

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

Tuning electrostatic interactions of colloidal particles at oil-water interfaces with organic salts

Author(s): Carolina van Baalen, Jacopo Vialetto, Lucio Isa
Published in: Phys. Rev. Lett., 2023, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.131.128202

Microfluidics for Microswimmers: Engineering Novel Swimmers and Constructing Swimming Lanes on the Microscale, a Tutorial Review

Author(s): Priyanka Sharan, Audrey Nsamela, Sasha Cai Lesher‐Pérez, Juliane Simmchen
Published in: Small, Issue 17/26, 2021, Page(s) 2007403, ISSN 1613-6810
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202007403

Optical calibration of holographic acoustic tweezers

Author(s): Sonia Marrara, David Bronte Ciriza, Alessandro Magazzù, Roberto Caruso, Giuseppe Lupò, Rosalba Saija, Antonino Foti, Pietro Giuseppe Gucciardi, Andrea Mandanici, Onofrio Maria Maragò, Maria Grazia Donato
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement, 2023, ISSN 0018-9456
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tim.2023.3282303

Modelling red blood cell optical trapping by machine learning improved geometrical optics calculations

Author(s): R Tognato, D Bronte Ciriza, OM Maragò, PH Jones
Published in: Biomedical Optics Express, 2023, ISSN 2156-7085
Publisher: The Optical Society
DOI: 10.1364/boe.488931

Roadmap for optical tweezers

Author(s): Giovanni Volpe, Onofrio M Maragò, Halina Rubinsztein-Dunlop, Giuseppe Pesce, Alexander B Stilgoe, Giorgio Volpe, Georgiy Tkachenko, Viet Giang Truong, Síle Nic Chormaic, Fatemeh Kalantarifard, Parviz Elahi, Mikael Käll, Agnese Callegari, Manuel I Marqués, Antonio A R Neves, Wendel L Moreira, Adriana Fontes, Carlos L Cesar, Rosalba Saija, Abir Saidi, Paul Beck, Jörg S Eismann, Peter Banzer, Th
Published in: Journal of Physics: Photonics, 2023, ISSN 2515-7647
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2515-7647/acb57b

Improving epidemic testing and containment strategies using machine learning

Author(s): Laura Natali, Saga Helgadottir, Onofrio M Maragò, Giovanni Volpe
Published in: Machine Learning: Science and Technology, Issue 2/3, 2021, Page(s) 035007, ISSN 2632-2153
Publisher: IOP Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/2632-2153/abf0f7

Brownian particles driven by spatially periodic noise

Author(s): Davide Breoni, Ralf Blossey, Hartmut Löwen
Published in: The European physical journal E, 2022, ISSN 2429-5299
Publisher: The European physical society
DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-022-00176-4

Sorting of heterogeneous colloids by AC-dielectrophoretic forces in a microfluidic chip with asymmetric orifices

Author(s): Kai Zhao and Minghan Hu and Carolina van Baalen and Laura Alvarez and Lucio Isa
Published in: Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, 2023, ISSN 0021-9797
Publisher: Academic Press
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcis.2022.12.108

Active nematics with deformable particles

Author(s): Ioannis Hadjifrangiskou, Liam J Ruske, Julia M Yeomans
Published in: Soft Matter, 2023, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00627a

Effect of Viscosity on Microswimmers: A Comparative Study

Author(s): Audrey Nsamela, Priyanka Sharan, Aidee Garcia‐Zintzun, Sandra Heckel, Purnesh Chattopadhyay, Linlin Wang, Martin Wittmann, Thomas Gemming, James Saenz, Juliane Simmchen
Published in: ChemNanoMat, Issue 7/9, 2021, Page(s) 1042-1050, ISSN 2199-692X
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/cnma.202100119

Motility-induced shear thickening in dense colloidal suspensions

Author(s): A Gülce Bayram, Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl, Hartmut Löwen, Luca Biancofiore
Published in: Soft Matter, 2023, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00035d

A one-dimensional three-state run-and-tumble model with a ‘cell cycle’

Author(s): Davide Breoni, Fabian Jan Schwarzendahl, Ralf Blossey, Hartmut Löwen
Published in: Eur. Phys. J. E, 2022, ISSN 2429-5299
Publisher: The European Physical Society
DOI: 10.1140/epje/s10189-022-00238-7

Collective response of microrobotic swarms to external threats

Author(s): Chun-Jen Chen and Clemens Bechinger
Published in: New journal of physics, 2022, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac5374

Activity-driven tissue alignment in proliferating spheroids

Author(s): Liam J Ruske, Julia M Yeomans
Published in: Soft Matter, 2023, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2sm01239a

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

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

Active noise-driven particles under space-dependent friction in one dimension

Author(s): D. Breoni, H. Löwen, R. Blossey
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 103/5, 2021, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.103.052602

A miniaturized genotoxicity evaluation system for fast biomaterial-related risk assessment

Author(s): Varvara Gribova, Jesus Manuel Antunez Dominguez , Alan Morin , Julia Sepulveda Diaz , Philippe Lavalle , Nihal Engin Vrana
Published in: Analytical methods, 2023, ISSN 1759-9660
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2ay01873j

Optical tweezers in a dusty universe

Author(s): P. Polimeno, A. Magazzù, M. A. Iatì, R. Saija, L. Folco, D. Bronte Ciriza, M. G. Donato, A. Foti, P. G. Gucciardi, A. Saidi, C. Cecchi-Pestellini, A. Jimenez Escobar, E. Ammannito, G. Sindoni, I. Bertini, V. Della Corte, L. Inno, A. Ciaravella, A. Rotundi, O. M. Maragò
Published in: The European Physical Journal Plus, Issue 136/3, 2021, ISSN 2190-5444
Publisher: Springer Science + Business Media
DOI: 10.1140/epjp/s13360-021-01316-z

Raman tweezers for tire and road wear micro-and nanoparticles analysis

Author(s): Raymond Gillibert, Alessandro Magazzù, Agnese Callegari, David Bronte-Ciriza, Antonino Foti, Maria Grazia Donato, Onofrio M Maragò, Giovanni Volpe, Marc Lamy de La Chapelle, Fabienne Lagarde, Pietro G Gucciardi
Published in: Environmental Science: Nano, 2022, ISSN 2051-8153
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d1en00553g

Activity gradients in two-and three-dimensional active nematics

Author(s): Liam J Ruske, Julia M Yeomans
Published in: Soft Matter, 2022, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00228k

Light Controlled Biohybrid Microbots

Author(s): Nicola Pellicciotta, Ojus Satish Bagal, Viridiana Carmona Sosa, Giacomo Frangipane, Gaszton Vizsnyiczai, Roberto Di Leonardo
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, 2023, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202214801

Morphology of Active Deformable 3D Droplets

Author(s): Liam J. Ruske, Julia M. Yeomans
Published in: Physical Review X, Issue 11/2, 2021, ISSN 2160-3308
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevx.11.021001

A platform for stop-flow gradient generation to investigate chemotaxis

Author(s): Xiao, Zuyao and Nsamela, Audrey and Garlan, Benjamin and Simmchen, Juliane
Published in: Angewandte Chemie - International Edition, 2022, ISSN 1433-7851
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/anie.202117768

Active Brownian and inertial particles in disordered environments: Short-time expansion of the mean-square displacement

Author(s): Davide Breoni, Michael Schmiedeberg, Hartmut Löwen
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 102/6, 2020, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.102.062604

Colloidal Active Matter Mimics the Behavior of Biological Microorganisms—An Overview

Author(s): Audrey Nsamela, Aidee Itandehui Garcia Zintzun, Thomas D Montenegro‐Johnson, Juliane Simmchen
Published in: Small, 2022, ISSN 1613-6810
Publisher: Wiley - V C H Verlag GmbbH & Co.
DOI: 10.1002/smll.202202685

Faster and more accurate geometrical-optics optical force calculation using neural networks

Author(s): David Bronte Ciriza, Alessandro Magazzù, Agnese Callegari, Gunther Barbosa, Antonio AR Neves, Maria Antonia Iatì, Giovanni Volpe, Onofrio M Maragò
Published in: ACS photonics, 2023, ISSN 2330-4022
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsphotonics.2c01565

Neural network training with highly incomplete medical datasets

Author(s): Yu-Wei Chang and Laura Natali and Oveis Jamialahmadi and Stefano Romeo and Joana B Pereira and Giovanni Volpe and for the Alzheimer’s Disease Neuroimaging Initiative
Published in: Machine Learning: Science and Technology, 2022, ISSN 2632-2153
Publisher: IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.1088/2632-2153/ac7b69

The role of disorder in the motion of chiral active particles in the presence of obstacles

Author(s): Danne M. van Roon, Giorgio Volpe, Margarida M. Telo da Gama and Nuno A. M. Araújo
Published in: Soft Matter, 2022, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d2sm00694d

Investigation of dust grains by optical tweezers for space applications

Author(s): A Magazzù, D Bronte Ciriza, A Musolino, A Saidi, P Polimeno, MG Donato, A Foti, PG Gucciardi, MA Iatì, R Saija, N Perchiazzi, A Rotundi, L Folco, OM Maragò
Published in: The Astrophysical Journal, 2022, ISSN 0004-637X
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/ac9a45