Boosted Annealing of Colloidal Monolayers using Active Dopants

ORAL

Abstract

Active particles are microscopic particles, which can inject energy locally and made available by recent progress in colloidal science. They are ideal "pump-probes" to explore the emergent properties in non-equilibrium soft systems and control the behavior of soft matter and self-assembly at the microscale.

In this talk, we will demonstrate how active particles added to a material to regulates its activity internally and boost the annealing of a colloidal monolayer. It opens a broad range of novel opportunities to thermal treatments, where the properties of matter are not controlled macroscopically but microscopically and in real time by active dopants.

Presenters

  • Sophie Ramananarivo

    LadHyX, University of California, San Diego

Authors

  • Sophie Ramananarivo

    LadHyX, University of California, San Diego

  • Etienne Ducrot

    CSMR, New York University, Department of Physics, NYU, New York University

  • Jeremie Palacci

    University of California, San Diego