Research Projects

Active matter, which can consume energy from the environment and drive themselves out of equilibrium, is characterized by self-organization and spontaneous symmetry breaking. This study of active matter can be crucial for predictive theory, controlling dynamics, and designing new bio-inspired materials. synthetic active matter models and their collective dynamics can provide new insights into living matter systems. Phoretic self-propelled particles, equipped with mechanisms for gradient creation, are particularly interesting. Hydrodynamic and phoretic interactions between active particles are fundamental to understanding their collective motion. The study of active-passive mixtures and chirality can also provide insights into living systems. These findings can advance our understanding of soft matter and contribute to controllable smart materials in fields like molecular biology, biomedicine, collective transport, drug delivery, and swarm robotics.