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In recent years, active matter has attracted tremendous research interest. Active matter displays many phenomena, such as super-diffusion, huge fluctuation and collective motion. The shape of active agent plays a critical role in the self-assembly of active matter. Understanding the oligomers’ dynamics of active agents is the first step to study the self-assembly of massive agents. Here, we design a self-properlling particle with the “十” shape using the Hexbug robot and investigate the dynamics of oligomers composed of these particles. To track the position of particles, the top of the particles is marked by black cards with white dots in the center. We find that these particles can agglomerate together to form stable oligomers consisting of two, three, or four particles. We study the dynamics by analyzing the trajectory, mean-square displacement, angular velocity, angular velocity distribution and the curvature distribution. We find that the dynamics can be divided into two types. One is the combination of eccentric rotation with small circular radius and irregular translation, which occurs in the system with the zero resultant force and nonzero torque. The other is the eccentric rotation with a large circular radius, which appears in the system in which both the resultant force and torque are not zero. In addition, we find that the translational dynamics of oligomers displays a super diffusion on a short time scale, influenced by the confirguration of oligomers. Further, the larger torque and the smaller moment of inertia result in the bigger angle speed of oligomers. Moreover, we investigate the curvature distribution of the trimer and find that the faster the angle speed of the trimer, the bigger its curvature is.
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Keywords:
- self-properlled particle /
- “十” shape granule /
- oligomers /
- anomalous dynamics
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图 1 实验材料与场地 (a) hexbug马达; (b) 识别卡片, 白点用于提取坐标, 数字代表对应部分的尺寸; (c) hexbug马达与“十”字形结构复合体; (d) 实验场地, 数字表示对应尺寸, 白色表示梅花边界; (e)—(g) 二聚体、三聚体、四聚体的初始结构
Figure 1. Experimental setup: (a) Hexbug motor; (b) identification card, white dots used to extract the coordinate; (c) complex of hexbug motor and “十” structure; (d) experiment field (the white color denotes the plum flower border); (e)–(g) the initial structure of dimer, trimer and tetramer.
图 2 二聚体构型及运动轨迹 (a) 2-1, 2-2, 2-3为三种构型, 黄色箭头为自驱力方向, 在每个构型右上角标明了旋转方向,
$\otimes $ 表示顺时针旋转,$\odot $ 表示逆时针旋转; (b) 2-1寡聚体的运动轨迹; (c) 寡聚体2-2的运动轨迹; (d) 2-3寡聚体的运动轨迹Figure 2. Structures and trajectories of three dimers. (a) 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 denote three kinds of arrangements. Yellow arrow is the self-propelled orientation.
$\otimes $ means clockwise rotation,$\odot $ counterclockwise. (b) 2-1 trajectory; (c) 2-2 trajectory; (d) 2-3 trajectory.
图 3 (a) 三种构型的均方位移; (b) 三种构型的角均方位移, 插图为角平均位移; (c) 三种构型的角速度概率分布, 其中点代表实验数据, 线条为高斯拟合
Figure 3. (a) MSDs for 2-1, 2-2, 2-3 configurations and their MSADs (b), the inset is mean angle displacement (MAD); (c) angular velocity distribution, where points are the experimental data, lines correspond to Gaussian fitting.
图 4 三粒子寡聚体构型及运动轨迹 (a) 四种构型, 黄色箭头为自推进力方向, 在每个构型旁边标明了旋转方向,
$\otimes$ 表示顺时针旋转,$\odot $ 表示逆时针旋转; (b) 3-1的运动轨迹; (c) 3-2的运动轨迹; (d) 3-3的运动轨迹; (e) 3-4的运动轨迹Figure 4. Structures and trajectories of three trimers. (a) 3-1, 3-2, 3-3, 3-4 denote four kinds of arrangements. Yellow arrow is the self-propelled orientation.
$\otimes $ means clockwise rotation,$\odot $ counterclockwise. (b) 3-1 trajectory; (c) 3-2 trajectory; (d) 3-3 trajectory; (e) 3-4 trajectory.
图 5 (a) 四种构型的均方位移; (b) 四种构型的角均方位移, 插图为角平均位移; (c) 四种构型的角速度概率分布及高斯拟合; (d) 四种构型的曲率概率分布及高斯拟合
Figure 5. (a) MSDs for 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4 configurations; (b) MSADs for four configurations, where the inset is mean angle displacement; (c) angular velocity probability distributions and their Gaussian fittings; (d) curvature probability distributions and their Gaussian fittings.
图 6 四粒子寡聚体构型及运动轨迹 (a) 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5为五种构型, 黄色箭头为自推进力方向, 在每个构型旁边标明了旋转方向.
$\otimes $ 表示顺时针旋转,$\odot $ 表示逆时针旋转. (b) 4-1的运动轨迹; (c) 4-2的运动轨迹; (d) 4-3的运动轨迹; (e) 4-4的运动轨迹; (f) 4-5的运动轨迹Figure 6. Structures and trajectories of five tetramers: (a) 4-1, 4-2, 4-3, 4-4, 4-5 denote five kinds of arrangements. Yellow arrow is the self-propelled orientation.
$\otimes $ means clockwise rotation,$\odot $ counterclockwise. (b) 4-1 trajectory; (c) 4-2 trajectory; (d) 4-3 trajectory; (e) 4-4 trajectory; (f) 4-5 trajectory.
图 7 (a) 五种构型的均方位移; (b) 五种构型的角均方位移, 插图为角平均位移; (c) 五种构型的角速度概率分布
Figure 7. (a) MSDs for five structures and (b) their MSADs. The inset is mean angle displacement. (c) Angular velocity distributions for five structures.
图 8 两种不稳定的四聚体构型
Figure 8. Two different structures of four polymers which are instable.
表 1 角速度的高斯拟合参数值
Table 1. Gaussian fitting parameter value of angular velocity.
参数 2-1构型 2-2构型 2-3构型 均值$ {x}_{\mathrm{c}} $ 2.60 3.48 0.94 σ 0.26 0.31 0.18 
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表 2 角速度的高斯拟合参数值
Table 2. Gaussian fitting parameter value of angular velocity.
参数 3-1构型 3-3构型 3-4构型 中心$ {x}_{\mathrm{c}} $ 1.01 0.68 1.96 方差 0.28 0.16 0.24
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表 3 转动圆周曲率的高斯拟合参数值
Table 3. Gaussian fitting value of curvature.
参数 3-1构型 3-2构型 3-3构型 3-4构型 中心$ {x}_{\mathrm{c}} $ 1.03 1.60 0.69 2.01 方差 0.44 0.50 0.20 0.44
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[1] Jana A D, Manna S C, Rosair G M, Drew M G B, Mostafa G, Ray Chaudhuri N 2007 Cryst. Growth Des. 7 1365
Google Scholar
[2] Janiak C 2000 J. Chem. Soc. , Dalton Trans. 2000 3885
Google Scholar
[3] Schottel B L 2006 J. Am. Chem. Soc. 128 5895
Google Scholar
[4] Nishio M 2004 CrystEngComm 6 130
Google Scholar
[5] Singh N J, Min S K, Kim D Y, Kim K S 2009 J. Chem. Theory Comput. 5 515
Google Scholar
[6] Biswas D, Chakrabarty P P, Saha S, Jana A D, Schollmeyer D, García-Granda S 2013 Inorg. Chim. Acta 408 172
Google Scholar
[7] Packer M J, Dauncey M P, Hunter C A 2000 J. Mol. Biol. 295 71
Google Scholar
[8] de Oliveira B G 2013 Phys. Chem. Chem. Phys. 15 37
Google Scholar
[9] Lee E C, Kim D, Jurečka P, Tarakeshwar P, Hobza P, Kim K S 2007 J. Phys. Chem. A 111 3446
Google Scholar
[10] Yang Z 2021 Cells 10 934
Google Scholar
[11] Ginot F, Theurkauff I, Detcheverry F, Ybert C, Cottin-Bizonne C 2018 Nat. Commun. 9 696
Google Scholar
[12] Mauleon-Amieva A, Allen M P, Royall C P 2021 arXiv: 2107.07934 [cond-mat]
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Google Scholar
[14] Grossmann R, Aranson I S, Peruani F 2020 Nat. Commun. 11 5365
Google Scholar
[15] Fily Y, Marchetti M C 2012 Phys. Rev. Lett. 108 235702
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[16] Deseigne J, Dauchot O, Chaté H 2010 Phys. Rev. Lett. 105 098001
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Google Scholar
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Google Scholar
[19] Redner G S, Hagan M F, Baskaran A 2013 Phys. Rev. Lett. 110 055701
Google Scholar
[20] Andréen D, Jenning P, Napp N, Petersen K 2020 Soft Matter 16 9436
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