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CPP: Fachverband Chemische Physik und Polymerphysik

CPP 55: Symposium SYAD: Anomalous Diffusion in Complex Environments (BP/CPP/DY, organized by BP)

CPP 55.1: Invited Talk

Thursday, March 10, 2016, 15:00–15:30, H15

Phenomenology of Collective Chemotaxis in Artificial and Living Active Matter — •Ramin Golestanian — University of Oxford

The non-equilibrium dynamics of active particles that send and receive chemical signals could lead to enhanced and/or anomalous diffusion, as well as spontaneous formation of interesting structures and patterns due to the long-range nature of the interactions. We examine theoretically the consequences of this interaction, and present some results that exemplify the type of emergent properties that could result from them, including: spontaneous formation of small stable clusters or ``molecules'' that can exhibit functionality that depends on geometry, collective chemotaxis in a solution of catalytically active colloids that could lead to cluster formation, aster condensation, and spontaneous oscillations, swarming - in the form of a comet - of light-induced thermally active colloids with negative Soret coefficient due to a shadowing interaction, and collective behaviour of a colony of cells that divide and interact chemotactically.