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Unravel the rotational and translational behavior of a single squirmer in flexible polymer solutionsat different Reynolds numbers 

Qi, Kai; Zhou, H.Y.; Corato, Marco de; Stratford, Kevin; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio (Publication date: 2026-03-18)

Microorganisms such as bacteria and algae navigate complex fluids, where their dynamics are vital for medical and industrial applications. However, the influence of the Reynolds number (Re) on the transport and rotational ...

Protocol for tailored in vitro neuronal networks on high-density microelectrode arrays with polydimethylsiloxane microstructures 

Haeb, Anna-Christina; Yamamoto, Hideaki; Roach, Paul; Merryweather, Daniel; Sato, Y.; Tornero, Daniel; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi (Publication date: 2026-03-18)

Complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS)-based high-density microelectrode arrays (HD-MEAs) enable neuronal recordings with high spatiotemporal resolution. However, integrating polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) microstructures ...

Multiscale Field Theory for Network Flows 

Mikaberidze, Guram; Artime, Oriol; Díaz Guilera, Albert; D'Souza, Raissa M. (Publication date: 2026-03-17)

Network flows are pervasive, including the movement of people, transportation of goods, transmission of energy, and dissemination of information; they occur on a range of empirical interconnected systems, from designed ...

Mapping the structure and function of whole-mount retinal organoids 

Cunquero, Marina; Isla-Magrane, Helena; Castro-Olvera, Gustavo; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi; Marsal, Maria; Mateos, Nicolas; Zufiaurre, Maddalen; Garcia-Arumi, Josep; Duarri, Anna; Loza-Alvarez, Pablo (Publication date: 2026-01-26)

Cell therapy is a therapeutic avenue for retinal degenerative diseases. Photoreceptortransplantation faces challenges in obtaining high-quality and mature photoreceptors that caneffectively integrate and function, facilitating ...

Tunable dynamics of flexible magnetic microcrosses: synchronous rotation, breathing and out-of-plane arm overtaking 

Tavacoli, Joe; Stikuts, Andris P.; Dass, Mihir; Liedl, Tim; Tierno, Pietro (Publication date: 2026-01-23)

We combine colloidal self-assembly and soft-lithography techniques to realize flexible magnetic microcrosses that can be manipulated via external, time dependent magnetic fields. The crosses are characterized by a central ...

Role of connectivity anisotropies in the dynamics of cultured neuronal networks 

Houben, Akke Mats; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi (Publication date: 2026-01-12)

An inherent challenge in designing laboratory-grown, engineered living neuronal networks lies in predicting the dynamic repertoire of the resulting network and its sensitivity to experimental variables. To fill this gap, ...

Citizen Science initiatives in climate-vulnerable neighbourhoods: a new transdisciplinary approach to tackle sustainability challenges? 

Bonhoure, Isabelle; Perelló, Josep, 1974- (Publication date: 2026-01-09)

According to the Spanish State Meteorological Agency (AEMET), the summer of 2025 (June 1-August 31) was exceptionally warm across Spain, with an average temperature of 24.2°C on the mainland. This value is 2.1°C above the ...

Modular architecture confers robustness to damage and facilitates recovery in spikingneural networks modeling in vitro neurons 

Sumi, Takuma; Houben, Akke Mats; Yamamoto, Hideaki; Kato, Hideyuki; Katori, Yuichi; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi; Hirano-Iwata, Ayumi (Publication date: 2026-01-07)

Impaired brain function is restored following injury through dynamic processes that involve synaptic plasticity. This restoration is supported by the brain’s inherent modular organization, which promotes functional separation ...

Discounting the Distant Future: What Do Historical Bond Prices Imply about the Long-Term Discount Rate? 

Farmer, J. Doyne; Geanakoplos, John; Richiardi, Matteo G.; Montero Matellanes, M. Mikel; Perelló, Josep, 1974-; Masoliver, Jaume, 1951- (Publication date: 2025-07-14)

We present a thorough empirical study on real interest rates by also including risk aversion through the introduction of the market price of risk. From the viewpoint of complex systems science and its multidisciplinary ...

Complex systems representing effective connectivity in patients with Type One diabetes mellitus 

Guàrdia-Olmos, Joan, 1958-; Gudayol Ferré, Esteve; Gallardo-Moreno, Geisa B.; Martínez Ricart, Mar; Peró, Maribel; González Garrido, Andrés A. (Publication date: 2019-03-15)

Background Type 1 diabetes mellitus (T1D) affects the entire cellular network of the organism. Some patients develop cognitive disturbances due to the disease, but several authors have suggested that the brain develops ...

Citizen science for social physics: digital tools and participation 

Perelló, Josep, 1974-; Larroya, Ferran; Bonhoure, Isabelle; Peter, Franziska (Publication date: 2024-10-22)

Social physics is an active and diverse field in which many scientists with formal training in physics study a broad class of complex social phenomena. Social physics investigates societal problems but most often does not ...

Spontaneous chiralization of polar active colloids 

De Corato, Marco; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio; Natale, Giovanniantonio (Publication date: 2022-04-06)

Polar active particles constitute a wide class of active matter that is able to propel along a preferential direction, given by their polar axis. Here, we demonstrate a generic active mechanism that leads to their spontaneous ...

Impact of Physical Obstacles on the Structural and Effective Connectivity of in silico Neuronal Circuits 

Ludl, Adriaan Alexander; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi (Publication date: 2021-03-29)

Scaffolds and patterned substrates are among the most successful strategies to dictate the connectivity between neurons in culture. Here, we used numerical simulations to investigate the capacity of physical obstacles ...

Non-spherical nanoparticles in block copolymer composites: nanosquares, nanorods and diamond 

Diaz, Javier; Pinna, Marco; Zvelindovsky, Andrei V.; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio (Publication date: 2020-04-28)

A hybrid two-dimensional block copolymer (BCP) nanocomposite computational model is proposed to study nanoparticles (NPs) with a generalized shape including square, rectangle, and rhombus. Simulations are used to study the ...

Reservoir computing in simulated neuronal cultures: Effectof network structure 

Mats Houben, Akke; Haeb, Anna-Christina; García Ojalvo, Jordi; Soriano i Fradera, Jordi (Publication date: 2026-03-18)

Biological neurons are emerging as attractive candidates for artificial intelligence and machine learning applications given their natural energy efficiency and self-repair capacity. However, they differ from their idealized ...

Neuronal Cultures: Exploring Biophysics, Complex Systems, and Medicine in a Dish 

Soriano i Fradera, Jordi (Publication date: 2023-07-14)

Neuronal cultures are one of the most important experimental models in modern interdisciplinary neuroscience, allowing to investigate in a control environment the emergence of complex behavior from an ensemble of interconnected ...

The long cross-over dynamics of capillary imbibition 

Ruiz-Gimenez, E.; Armstrong, S.; Leveque, A.; Michel, C.; Pagonabarraga Mora, Ignacio; Wells, G.G.; Hernández Machado, Aurora; Ledesma Aguilar, Rodrigo Andrés (Publication date: 2023-02-20)

Spontaneous capillary imbibition is a classical problem in interfacial fluid dynamics with a broad range of applications, from microfluidics to agriculture. Here we study the duration of the cross-over between an initial ...

Functionability in complex networks: Leading nodes for the transition from structural to functional networks through remote asynchronization 

Rosell-Tarragó, Gemma; Díaz Guilera, Albert (Publication date: 2020-01-20)

Complex networks are essentially heterogeneous not only in the basic properties of the constituent nodes, such as their degree, but also in the effects that these have on the global dynamical properties of the network. ...

Anomalous diffusion under stochastic resettings: a general approach 

Masoliver, Jaume, 1951-; Montero Torralbo, Miquel (Publication date: 2020-04-28)

We present a general formulation of the resetting problem which is valid for any distribution of resetting intervals and arbitrary underlying processes. We show that in such a general case, a stationary distribution may ...

Reconstructing social networks of Late Glacial and Holocene hunter-gatherers to understand cultural evolution 

Romano, Valéria; Lozano, Sergi; Fernández López de Pablo, Javier (Publication date: 2022-02-16)

Culture is increasingly being framed as a driver of human phenotypes and behaviour. Yet very little is known about variations in the patterns of past social interactions between humans in cultural evolution. The archaeological ...

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