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  • Title: Chemotaxis in a binary mixture of active and passive particles.
    Author: Stürmer J, Seyrich M, Stark H.
    Journal: J Chem Phys; 2019 Jun 07; 150(21):214901. PubMed ID: 31176313.
    Abstract:
    Mixtures of active and passive colloids show an intriguing dynamics of self-assembling, which is driven by the active component. Self-phoretic active colloids generate sinks in a chemical concentration field that cause passive colloids to drift toward active colloids by diffusiophoresis. The strength of this effective attraction is governed by the diffusiophoretic parameter, which determines the drift velocity. Simulating the Langevin dynamics of the colloids, we determine the state diagram for increasing diffusiophoretic strength and fixed active velocity. Three main states are distinguished. For weak attraction, passive particles are first scattered in the simulation box and then form a colloidal cloud around its center. Increasing the diffusiophoretic parameter further, passive particles oscillate between the cloud and a compact cluster, which embeds active colloids. Ultimately, in the third state, all particles collapse into a single stable cluster. In the collapse regime, the clustering dynamics of the largest cluster follows a logistic function and the mean cluster velocity vs cluster size decays with a power law. Throughout this article, we discuss our simulation results with regard to the experiments of Singh et al., Adv. Mater. 29(32), 1701328 (2017).
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