Active Colloidal Gels: Dynamically Arrested Active Matter

该项目将合成并研究活性胶体凝胶的行为。由于活性胶体的实验研究大多局限于准二维体系，因此，活性胶体的实验研究尚未扩展到形成双连续网络的活性粒子的旋节凝胶，因此是三维的。然而，最近在布里斯托尔实现了一个三维活性胶体系统，这使得对这一新的活性物质相的研究成为可能。预计实验将与模拟同时运行，其中监督小组拥有相当丰富的专业知识。

This project would synthesise and study the behaviour of active colloidal gels. Because ithas for the most part been confined to quasi two-dimensional systems, the experimentalstudy of active colloids has yet to be extended to spinodal gels of active particles, whichform a bi-continuous network and are therefore three- dimensional. However, a threedimensionalactive colloidal system has recently been realised in Bristol, which permitsthe study into this novel phase of active matter. It is expected that experiments would berun concurrently with simulations, in which the supervisory team have considerableexpertise.