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  • Soft Matter Physics
  • Chemical Hydrodynamics
  • Active Matter Systems

Background:

  • Active droplets are model systems for studying interactions in biological organisms.
  • These droplets generate coupled chemical and hydrodynamic fields, influencing their behavior.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate pairwise interactions between active droplets.
  • To determine the role of solute Péclet number (Pe) in droplet interactions.
  • To validate theoretical predictions on active droplet scattering behavior.

Main Methods:

  • Experimental investigation of micellar solubilization-based active droplets.
  • Analysis of droplet interactions across varying solute Péclet numbers (Pe).
  • Examination of droplet-wake interactions and scattering behavior.

Main Results:

  • Solute Péclet number (Pe) dictates interaction dominance: low Pe favors chemo-repulsion, high Pe favors hydrodynamic interactions.
  • Scattering behavior is invariant to droplet approach orientation, governed by intrinsic chemical polarity.
  • High Pe enables transient contact, synchronized motion, and reduced repulsion between droplets.

Conclusions:

  • Established a framework linking Pe-dependent chemical polarity to scattering outcomes.
  • Provided mechanistic insights into active droplet interactions and collective behaviors.
  • Findings support modeling and engineering of emergent dynamics in chemically active systems.