1. Active Matter : Self-Assembly, Biomimetics, Autonomous Machine
Tong (Tony) Gao Mechanical Engineering & Computational Mathematics, Sciences, and Engineering
Novel types of complex fluids and materials
Fluids with suspended active microstructure:
(Bacterium, cytoskeleton extracts, synthetic swimmers, etc.)
Collective motion and energy conversion
An extreme version of fluid-body interactions!
(Reciprocal coupling between microstructural dynamics and flow)
Out-of-equilibrium spontaneously!
Bacterial Swimming
Zhang et al. PNAS, 2010
Cytoplasmic Fluid
G. von Dassow, OIMB
Synthetic Particle “Schooling”
Ibele et al. Angew. Chem. , 2009
Living Liquid Crystal
Sanchez et al. Nature, 2012

2. What are important … From Z. Dogic Lab
Local dynamics: self-assembly, steric interactions.
Global dynamics: hydrodynamic interactions, material instability.
Time and length scale: multiscale coupling.
Material properties: structures, rheology.

3. (Quasi First Principle) Multiscale Approach
Multiscale tool development and implementation
Experiments
Simulation
Theory
Doi-Onsager Kinetic Model
Q-Tensor Theory
Brownian Dynamics
Slender-Body Model
ALE-FEM
Ewald Method and FMM
Fictitious Domain Method
(Quasi First Principle) Multiscale Approach
Discrete Particles
Continuum Medium

4. System biology and big data
Cell Division
Sugimoto group, NII, JP
Mitotic Spindle
Ellenberg group, EMBL, DE
Walking Motor
"Inner life of a cell" , D. Bolinsky et al.
From Thomas Müller-Reichert group at TU Dresden

5. From active matter to autonomous machine
Camacho-Lopez et al. Nat. Mater., 2004
Huang et al. Sci. Report, 2015
Life in 2100
Park et al. Science., 2016