Steering self-organisation through confinement

Nuno A. M. Araújo; Liesbeth M. C. Janssen; Thomas Barois; Guido Boffetta; Itai Cohen; Alessandro Corbetta; Olivier Dauchot; Marjolein Dijkstra; William M. Durham; Audrey Dussutour; Simon Garnier; Hanneke Gelderblom; Ramin Golestanian; Lucio Isa; Gijsje H. Koenderink; Hartmut Löwen; Ralf Metzler; Marco Polin; C. Patrick Royall; Anđela Šarić; Anupam Sengupta; Cécile Sykes; Vito Trianni; Idan Tuval; Nicolas Vogel; Julia M. Yeomans; Iker Zuriguel; Alvaro Marin; Giorgio Volpe

doi:10.1039/D2SM01562E

Steering self-organisation through confinement

Nuno A. M. Araújo,

*^ab Liesbeth M. C. Janssen,

*^cd Thomas Barois,^e Guido Boffetta,

^f Itai Cohen,

^gh Alessandro Corbetta,

^c Olivier Dauchot,

ⁱ Marjolein Dijkstra,^j William M. Durham,

^k Audrey Dussutour,^l Simon Garnier,

^m Hanneke Gelderblom,

^dn Ramin Golestanian,

^op Lucio Isa,

^q Gijsje H. Koenderink,

^r Hartmut Löwen,

^s Ralf Metzler,

^t Marco Polin,

^uv C. Patrick Royall,

ⁱ Anđela Šarić,

^w Anupam Sengupta,

^x Cécile Sykes,^y Vito Trianni,

^z Idan Tuval,^u Nicolas Vogel,

^aa Julia M. Yeomans,

^p Iker Zuriguel,

^ab Alvaro Marin

*^ac and Giorgio Volpe

*^ad

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* Corresponding authors

^a Departamento de Física, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
E-mail: nmaraujo@fc.ul.pt

^b Centro de Física Teórica e Computacional, Faculdade de Ciências, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal

^c Department of Applied Physics and Science Education, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven, The Netherlands
E-mail: l.m.c.janssen@tue.nl

^d Institute for Complex Molecular Systems, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

^e University of Bordeaux, CNRS, LOMA, UMR 5798, Talence, France

^f Department of Physics and INFN, University of Torino, via Pietro Giuria 1, Torino, Italy

^g Kavli Institute at Cornell for Nanoscale Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

^h Laboratory of Atomic and Solid-State Physics, Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA

ⁱ Gulliver UMR CNRS 7083, ESPCI Paris, Université PSL, Paris, France

^j Soft condensed matter, Department of Physics, Debye institute for Nanomaterials Science, Utrecht University, Princetonplein 1, Utrecht, The Netherlands

^k Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Sheffield, Hounsfield Road, Sheffield, UK

^l Research Centre on Animal Cognition (CRCA), Centre for Integrative Biology (CBI), Toulouse University, CNRS, UPS, Toulouse, AD, France

^m Department of Biological Sciences, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Newark, NJ, USA

ⁿ Department of Applied Physics and J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics, Eindhoven University of Technology, P.O. Box 513, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

^o Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPI-DS), Göttingen, Germany

^p Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK

^q Laboratory for Soft Materials and Interfaces, Department of Materials, ETH Zürich, Zürich, Switzerland

^r Department of Bionanoscience, Kavli Institute of Nanoscience, Delft University of Technology, Delft, The Netherlands

^s Institut für Theoretische Physik II: Weiche Materie, Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf, Universitätsstrasse 1, Düsseldorf, Germany

^t Institute of Physics & Astronomy, University of Potsdam, Karl-Liebknecht-Str 24/25, Potsdam-Golm, Germany

^u Mediterranean Institute for Advanced Studies, IMEDEA UIB-CSIC, C/Miquel Marqués 21, Esporles, Spain

^v Department of Physics, University of Warwick, Gibbet Hill road, Coventry, UK

^w Institute of Science and Technology Austria, Klosterneuburg, Austria

^x Physics of Living Matter, Department of Physics and Materials Science, University of Luxembourg, 162 A, Avenue de la Faïencerie, Luxembourg

^y Laboratoire de Physique de lÉcole normale supérieure, ENS, Université PSL, CNRS, Sorbonne Université, Université Paris Cité, Paris, France

^z Institute of Cognitive Sciences and Technologies, CNR, Via San Martino della Battaglia 44, Rome, Italy

^aa Institute of Particle Technology, Friedrich-Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Cauerstrasse 4, Erlangen, Germany

^ab Departamento de Física y Matemática Aplicada, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad de Navarra, Pamplona, Spain

^ac Physics of Fluids Group, Mesa+ Institute, Max Planck Center for Complex Fluid Dynamics and J. M. Burgers Center for Fluid Dynamics, University of Twente, Enschede, The Netherlands
E-mail: a.marin@utwente.nl

^ad Department of Chemistry, University College London, 20 Gordon Street, London, UK
E-mail: g.volpe@ucl.ac.uk

Abstract

Self-organisation is the spontaneous emergence of spatio-temporal structures and patterns from the interaction of smaller individual units. Examples are found across many scales in very different systems and scientific disciplines, from physics, materials science and robotics to biology, geophysics and astronomy. Recent research has highlighted how self-organisation can be both mediated and controlled by confinement. Confinement is an action over a system that limits its units’ translational and rotational degrees of freedom, thus also influencing the system's phase space probability density; it can function as either a catalyst or inhibitor of self-organisation. Confinement can then become a means to actively steer the emergence or suppression of collective phenomena in space and time. Here, to provide a common framework and perspective for future research, we examine the role of confinement in the self-organisation of soft-matter systems and identify overarching scientific challenges that need to be addressed to harness its full scientific and technological potential in soft matter and related fields. By drawing analogies with other disciplines, this framework will accelerate a common deeper understanding of self-organisation and trigger the development of innovative strategies to steer it using confinement, with impact on, e.g., the design of smarter materials, tissue engineering for biomedicine and in guiding active matter.

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