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SUBMITTER: Ramananarivo S
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6662715 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Jul
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ramananarivo Sophie S Ducrot Etienne E Palacci Jeremie J
Nature communications 20190729 1
Molecular motors are essential to the living, generating fluctuations that boost transport and assist assembly. Active colloids, that consume energy to move, hold similar potential for man-made materials controlled by forces generated from within. Yet, their use as a powerhouse in materials science lacks. Here we show a massive acceleration of the annealing of a monolayer of passive beads by moderate addition of self-propelled microparticles. We rationalize our observations with a model of colli ...[more]