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ERC Consolidator Grant · 2020

Active and Adaptive: Reconfigurable Active Colloids with Internal Feedback and Communication Schemes

The vision of creating autonomous materials constituted of microscale motile units promises to disrupt a broad range of technologies but is still far beyond our reach. Inspired by nature, these materials are active, i.e. they convert available energy into functions, and adaptive, i.e. they respond to stimuli by reconfiguring via internal feedback and signalling schemes. In order to progress, we need to rethink the way in which we design, fabricate and control synthetic active units, aka active colloids or artificial microswimmers. I propose an innovative approach that combines colloidal synthesis, assembly and actuation with nanofabrication and the implementation of feedback to realize a…

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