Smart, Living & Active Matter - Leiden

Leiden Institute of Physics

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The SLAM - Smart, Living, & Active Matter - initiative unites theory and experimental groups of the Leiden Institute of Physics. It currently gathers the groups of Luca Giomi, Louise Jawerth, Daniela Kraft, Martin van Hecke, Silke Henkes and Alexandre Morin.

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SLAM symposium on Active Solids

The SLAM symposium on Active Solids which took place on June 4th was a succes!

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Coming up next

2026-05-20 - 11:00 @ Gorterzaal

MSc presentation Jeffrey Dijkstra

In this project active and flexible microswimmers which possess multiple flagella are investigated. We will study the behavior of swimmers consisting of one passive and two active units to understand the effect of a rigid and a bistable conformation. The experiments are complemented with simple active Brownian particle simulations. We will then increase the number of active and passive elements and vary their topology to investigate whether we can achieve functional behavior from different possible conformations and synchronization.

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