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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...