[Soft-matter] Soft Matter and Complex Systems Seminar on 21 Apr 2023

[Maciej Lisicki]

Dear Soft Matter Colleagues and Friends,

On Friday 21 April 2023 at 9:30 AM at the UW Faculty of Physics (Pasteura 5, Warsaw; room 1.40) we are hosting a seminar during which

Debasish Das (University of Strathclyde, Glasgow)

will give a talk

On the absence of collective motion in a bulk suspension of spontaneously rotating dielectric particles

Abstract
A suspension of dielectric particles rotating spontaneously when subjected to a DC electric field in two-dimensions next to a no-slip electrode have proven to be an ideal model for active matter [Bricard et al., 2013]. In this system, an electrohydrodynamic (EHD) instability called Quincke rotation was exploited to create self-propelling particles which aligned with each other due to EHD interactions giving rise to collective motion. It is natural to question whether a suspension of such particles in three-dimensions will also display collective motion and spontaneously flow like bacterial suspensions do. Using molecular dynamics type simulations, we show that dielectrophoretic forces responsible for chaining in the direction of the applied electric field in conventional electrorheological fluids prevent collective motion in suspensions with  individual particle rotation. Our simulations discover that the fundamental microstructural unit of a suspension under Quincke rotation is a pair of counter-rotating spheres aligned in the direction of the electric field. We perform a linear stability that explains this observation [Das and Saintillan, 2023].

A. Bricard, J.-B. Caussin, N. Desreumaux, O. Dauchot, and D. Bartolo. Emergence of macroscopic directed motion in populations of motile colloids. Nature, 503:95–98, 2013.
D. Das and D. Saintillan. On the absence of collective motion in a bulk suspension of spontaneously rotating dielectric particles. sub judice, 2023.

We warmly welcome everyone to attend the talk and the Soft Matter Coffee Break after the seminar, held in room 2.63 (2nd floor).

Maria Ekiel-Jeżewska
Maciej Lisicki
Piotr Szymczak
Panagiotis Theodorakis
Marek Trippenbach





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