# gst: traveling strings of active dipolar colloids.

AA << study an intriguing new type of self-assembled active colloidal polymer system in 3D. It is obtained from a suspension of Janus particles in an electric field that induces parallel dipoles in the particles as well as self-propulsion in the plane perpendicular to the field. >>

<< At low volume fractions, in experiment, the particles self-assemble into 3D columns that are self-propelled in 2D. Explicit numerical simulations combining dipolar interactions and active self-propulsion find an activity dependent transition to a string phase by increasing dipole strength. >>

AA << classify the collective dynamics of strings as a function of rotational and translational diffusion. (..) (They) also discover long range correlations of the fluctuations along the string contour that grow with the active persistence time, a purely active effect that disappears in the thermal limit. >>

Xichen Chao, Katherine Skipper, et al. Traveling Strings of Active Dipolar Colloids. Phys. Rev. Lett. 134, 018302. Jan 6, 2025. 

https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/PhysRevLett.134.018302

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Keywords: gst, particle, colloids, self-assembly, Janus, polymers, strings, transition