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Self-phoretic active colloids move and orient along self-generated chemical gradients by diffusiophoresis, a mechanism reminiscent of bacterial chemotaxis. In combination with the activity of the colloids, this creates effective repulsive and attractive interactions between particles depending on the sign of the translational and rotational diffusiophoretic parameters. A delicate balance of these interactions causes dynamic clustering and for overall strong effective attraction the particles collapse to one single cluster. Using Langevin dynamics simulations, we extend the state diagram of our earlier work (Phys. Rev. Lett. 112, 238303 (2014)) to regions with translational phoretic repulsion. With increasing repulsive strength, the collapsed cluster first starts to fluctuate strongly, then oscillates between a compact form and a colloidal cloud, and ultimately the colloidal cloud becomes static. The oscillations disappear if the phoretic interactions within compact clusters are not screened. We also study dynamic clustering at larger area fractions by exploiting cluster size distributions and mean cluster sizes. In particular, we identify the dynamic clustering 2 state as a signature of phoretic interactions. We analyze fusion and fission rate functions to quantify the kinetics of cluster formation and identify them as local signatures of phoretic interactions, since they can be measured on single clusters.
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Pohl, O., Stark, H. Self-phoretic active particles interacting by diffusiophoresis: A numerical study of the collapsed state and dynamic clustering. Eur. Phys. J. E 38, 93 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1140/epje/i2015-15093-4
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