Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46520-4
Title: Shaping active matter from crystalline solids to active turbulence
Authors: Qianhong Yang
Maoqiang Jiang
Francesco Picano
Lailai Zhu 
Issue Date: 3-Apr-2024
Citation: Qianhong Yang, Maoqiang Jiang, Francesco Picano, Lailai Zhu (2024-04-03). Shaping active matter from crystalline solids to active turbulence. Nature Communications 15 (1). ScholarBank@NUS Repository. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-46520-4
Rights: CC0 1.0 Universal
Abstract: Active matter drives its constituent agents to move autonomously by harnessing free energy, leading to diverse emergent states with relevance to both biological processes and inanimate functionalities. Achieving maximum reconfigurability of active materials with minimal control remains a desirable yet challenging goal. Here, we employ large-scale, agent-resolved simulations to demonstrate that modulating the activity of a wet phoretic medium alone can govern its solid-liquid-gas phase transitions and, subsequently, laminar-turbulent transitions in fluid phases, thereby shaping its emergent pattern. These two progressively emerging transitions, hitherto unreported, bring us closer to perceiving the parallels between active matter and traditional matter. Our work reproduces and reconciles seemingly conflicting experimental observations on chemically active systems, presenting a unified landscape of phoretic collective dynamics. These findings enhance the understanding of long-range, many-body interactions among phoretic agents, offer new insights into their non-equilibrium collective behaviors, and provide potential guidelines for designing reconfigurable materials.
Source Title: Nature Communications
URI: https://scholarbank.nus.edu.sg/handle/10635/249709
ISSN: 2041-1723
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-024-46520-4
Rights: CC0 1.0 Universal
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