In recent years, many efforts have been devoted to characterising liquid mixtures composed of molecules that interact and undergo chemical reactions, such as the cell cytoplasm or pools of short polymers that mimic the primordial soup. In such mixtures, condensates that form via phase separation play a key role. Here, I review the theory of phase separation in the presence of chemical...
Brownian colloids can acquire effective activity when immersed in a dense, out-of-equilibrium medium. In these environments, the surrounding particles continuously transfer energy to the colloids, generating persistent, non-equilibrium fluctuations that can drive ballistic motion at short times and enhanced diffusion at long times. In this talk I will present two distinct scenarios in which...
Many biological systems operating in athermal (active) environments, can be modelled as an information engine, with the key aspect of utilizing information on the fluctuation to extort work from the noisy environment[1]. In this study, we propose a feedback-driven information engine operating in a Gaussian-correlated active reservoir with characteristic strength (Da) and correlation time (ta),...
