Search Results - "M. Marchetti"
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The statistical physics of active matter: From self-catalytic colloids to living cells
Published in Physica A (15-08-2018)“…These lecture notes are designed to provide a brief introduction into the phenomenology of active matter and to present some of the analytical tools used to…”
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Athermal phase separation of self-propelled particles with no alignment
Published in Physical review letters (08-06-2012)“…We study numerically and analytically a model of self-propelled polar disks on a substrate in two dimensions. The particles interact via isotropic repulsive…”
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Nonreciprocity as a generic route to traveling states
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-08-2020)“…We examine a nonreciprocally coupled dynamical model of a mixture of two diffusing species. We demonstrate that nonreciprocity, which is encoded in the model…”
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Coagulation and cancer: biological and clinical aspects
Published in Journal of thrombosis and haemostasis (01-02-2013)“…Malignancy affects the hemostatic system and the hemostatic system affects malignancy. In cancer patients there are a number of coagulation abnormalities which…”
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Viscoelastic control of spatiotemporal order in bacterial active matter
Published in Nature (London) (04-02-2021)“…Active matter consists of units that generate mechanical work by consuming energy 1 . Examples include living systems (such as assemblies of bacteria 2 – 5 and…”
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Hydrodynamics of Active Defects: From Order to Chaos to Defect Ordering
Published in Physical review. X (04-12-2019)“…Topological defects play a prominent role in the physics of two-dimensional materials. When driven out of equilibrium in active nematics, disclinations can…”
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Emergence of dynamic vortex glasses in disordered polar active fluids
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (09-03-2021)“…In equilibrium, disorder conspires with topological defects to redefine the ordered states of matter in systems as diverse as crystals, superconductors, and…”
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Defect Unbinding in Active Nematics
Published in Physical review letters (07-09-2018)“…We formulate the statistical dynamics of topological defects in the active nematic phase, formed in two dimensions by a collection of self-driven particles on…”
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Topology and dynamics of active nematic vesicles
Published in Science (American Association for the Advancement of Science) (05-09-2014)“…Engineering synthetic materials that mimic the remarkable complexity of living organisms is a fundamental challenge in science and technology. We studied the…”
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Activity-Suppressed Phase Separation
Published in Physical review letters (23-12-2022)“…We use a continuum model to examine the effect of activity on a phase-separating mixture of an extensile active nematic and a passive fluid. We highlight the…”
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Symmetry, Thermodynamics, and Topology in Active Matter
Published in Physical review. X (01-02-2022)“…The name active matter refers to any collection of entities that individually use free energy to generate their own motion and forces. Through interactions,…”
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Defect annihilation and proliferation in active nematics
Published in Physical review letters (29-05-2013)“…Liquid crystals inevitably possess topological defect excitations generated through boundary conditions, through applied fields, or in quenches to the ordered…”
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Aggregation and segregation of confined active particles
Published in Soft matter (14-09-2014)“…We simulate a model of self-propelled disks with soft repulsive interactions confined to a box in two dimensions. For small rotational diffusion rates,…”
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Patterning of morphogenetic anisotropy fields
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (28-03-2023)“…Orientational order, encoded in anisotropic fields, plays an important role during the development of an organism. A striking example of this is the freshwater…”
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A nonequilibrium force can stabilize 2D active nematics
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (03-07-2018)“…Suspensions of actively driven anisotropic objects exhibit distinctively nonequilibrium behaviors, and current theories predict that they are incapable of…”
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Solid-Liquid Transition of Deformable and Overlapping Active Particles
Published in Physical review letters (17-07-2020)“…Experiments and theory have shown that cell monolayers and epithelial tissues exhibit solid-liquid and glass-liquid transitions. These transitions are…”
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Cellular Contraction and Polarization Drive Collective Cellular Motion
Published in Biophysical journal (21-06-2016)“…Coordinated motions of close-packed multicellular systems typically generate cooperative packs, swirls, and clusters. These cooperative motions are driven by…”
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Anomalous glassy dynamics in simple models of dense biological tissue
Published in Europhysics letters (01-02-2018)“…In order to understand the mechanisms for glassy dynamics in biological tissues and shed light on those in non-biological materials, we study the…”
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Geometry Regulates Traction Stresses in Adherent Cells
Published in Biophysical journal (19-08-2014)“…Cells generate mechanical stresses via the action of myosin motors on the actin cytoskeleton. Although the molecular origin of force generation is well…”
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Controlling liquid–liquid phase behaviour with an active fluid
Published in Nature materials (01-11-2023)“…Demixing binary liquids is a ubiquitous transition explained using a well-established thermodynamic formalism that requires the equality of intensive…”
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