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  • Materials Science
  • Soft Matter Physics

Background:

  • Active matter systems are crucial for understanding natural processes and developing new technologies.
  • Innovation in active matter arises from experimental insights and designed synthetic systems.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To develop a novel active matter system for pattern formation.
  • To investigate microstructural motifs with orthogonal alignment using dumbbell-shaped particles.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized an active Brownian particle model with dumbbell-shaped particles.
  • Introduced quadrupolar interactions via antiparallel magnetic dipolar moments.
  • Analyzed phase behavior by varying active motion and quadrupolar attraction.

Main Results:

  • Discovered that phase behavior depends on the balance between active motion and quadrupolar attraction.
  • Observed tunable aggregate structures, including stable triangular clusters (N=3).
  • Generated self-spinning, windmill-like aggregates due to combined active motion and particle polarity.

Conclusions:

  • The simple model yields diverse microstructural motifs with potential for experimental realization.
  • The system exhibits emergent chirality leading to macroscopic spinning structures.
  • Demonstrated control over aggregate formation and properties in active matter systems.