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Quantifying the non-equilibrium activity of an active colloid

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2020, Soft Matter

https://doi.org/10.1039/D0SM00398K
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Active matter systems exhibit rich emergent behavior due to constant injection and dissipation of energy at the level of individual agents. We characterize the dissipation of single active colloids.

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