Katuri, Jaideep (Date of defense: 2018-09-20)
Living organisms and systems are continually converting energy, either internally stored or transduced from their surroundings, into motion. This activity and the resulting self-propulsion constantly ...
Malgaretti, Paolo (Date of defense: 2013-10-23)
In this thesis we characterize the behavior of molecular motors when the properties of the cytoplasm they displace through are not homogeneous or isotropic. Anisotropies in the cytoplasm can be induced, ...
Navarro Argemí, Eloy (Date of defense: 2018-10-25)
The goal of this thesis is studying hydrodynamic effects on active colloidal suspensions. Hydrodynamic interaction is propagated through the fluid in which the colloids displace due to the flow they ...
Alarcón Oseguera, Francisco (Date of defense: 2016-02-08)
It is known that active particles induce emerging patterns as a result of their dynamic interactions, giving rise to amazing collective motions, such as swarming or clustering. Here we present a systematic ...
Codina Sala, Joan (Date of defense: 2018-10-09)
In this thesis we asses the phenomena of arising interactions in soft matter in coexistence with soft active matter. As a non-equilibrium bath we introduce ensembles of self-propelled particles, granular ...
Dal Cengio, Sara (Date of defense: 2020-12-16)
Most systems in Nature manifest complex transport phenomena arising from the interplay of multiple time and length scales, be them intrinsic in the system’s dynamics or externally enforced. It is the ...
Rodríguez Lázaro, Guillermo (Date of defense: 2014-06-30)
The mechanics and elasticity of red blood cells (RBCs) determine the capability to deform of these cells when passing through the thinnest capillaries, where the delivery of oxygen takes place. The ...
Palacios Ruiz, Lucas Santiago (Date of defense: 2022-03-04)
This thesis contains my doctoral research in condensed soft matter physics prepared at the University of Barcelona. It covers the interaction of active Janus particles with liquid-liquid and liquid-solid ...
Gascó Patiño, Toni (Date of defense: 2024-02-05)
[eng] This doctoral thesis deals with the study of the collective behavior of active particles using computacional simulations of semi-dilute solutions of microswimmers. Results are obtained for the ...