Araújo, Nuno AM;
Janssen, Liesbeth;
Barois, Thomas;
Boffetta, Guido;
Cohen, Itai;
Corbetta, Alessandro;
Dauchot, Olivier;
... Volpe, Giorgio; + view all
(2023)
Steering self-organisation through confinement.
Soft Matter
10.1039/d2sm01562e.
(In press).
Preview |
Text
d2sm01562e.pdf - Accepted Version Download (10MB) | Preview |
Abstract
Self-organisation is the spontaneous emergence of spatio-temporal structures and patterns from the interaction of smaller individual units. Examples are found across many scales in very different systems and scientific disciplines, from physics, materials science and robotics to biology, geophysics and astronomy. Recent research has highlighted how self-organisation can be both mediated and controlled by confinement. Confinement is an action over a system that limits its units’ translational and rotational degrees of freedom, thus also influencing the system’s phase space probability density; it can function as either a catalyst or inhibitor of self-organisation. Confinement can then become a means to actively steer the emergence or suppression of collective phenomena in space and time. Here, to provide a common framework and perspective for future research, we examine the role of confinement in the self-organisation of soft-matter systems and identify overarching scientific challenges that need to be addressed to harness its full scientific and technological potential in soft matter and related fields. By drawing analogies with other disciplines, this framework will accelerate a common deeper understanding of self-organisation and trigger the development of innovative strategies to steer it using confinement, with impact on, e.g., the design of smarter materials, tissue engineering for biomedicine and in guiding active matter.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Steering self-organisation through confinement |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1039/d2sm01562e |
| Publisher version: | https://doi.org/10.1039/D2SM01562E |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence. |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Chemistry |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10164696 |
Archive Staff Only
 |
View Item |
