SP Seminar @SISSA Via Bonomea 265 - Tuesday 19 June at 11am - DE BUYL

[CM Section]

Joint ICTP/SISSA Statistical Physics Seminar

Tuesday 19 June at 11:00 a.m.
SISSA, Via Bonomea 265, room 128

Speaker: Pierre DE BUYL (KU Leuven, Belgium)

Title: Nanomotors: Symmetry, Chemotaxis, Sedimentation and Anisotropy

Abstract:
Models for active matter have brought a new type of experiments in 
statistical
physics where the source of nonequilibrium lies within the particles 
themselves
or on their surface. In this talk, I will take the viewpoint of molecular
simulations to study matching experiments on chemically-powered nanomotors:
self-propulsion by symmetry-breaking, chemotaxis, sedimentation and 
anisotropic
nanomotors. I will comment on the design of consistent microscopic 
models with
respect to energy conservation, to chemical kinetic, and to thermal
fluctuations. As a perspective, I will discuss enzyme nanomotors. On the one
hand, they consist in elaborate catalytic devices with interesting 
thermodynamic
properties and on the other hand they might inspire or serve as 
molecular scale
machine for nano- and bio-technology in the coming years.