Self-Organized States from Solutions of Active Ring Polymers in Bulk and under Confinement

• DOI: 10.1021/acs.jctc.3c00818
• Publication Date: 2023-12-28T14:48:29Z
• Authors: Juan Pablo Miranda; Emanuele Locatelli; Chantal Valeriani
• Keywords: Active layer; Suspension

In the present work, we study, by means of numerical simulations, structural and dynamical behavior a suspension active ring polymers in bulk under lateral confinement. At high activity, when changing distance between confining planes polymers' density, identify emergence self-organized state, characterized coexistence slowly diffusing clusters rotating disks faster rings moving them. We further assess that self-organization is robust range polymer sizes, critical value necessary to trigger cluster formation. This system has distinctive features resembling at same time polymers, liquid crystals, systems, where interplay topology, confinement leads spontaneous segregation an initially one-component solution.