--- _id: '9060' abstract: - lang: eng text: Molecular motors are essential to the living, generating fluctuations that boost transport and assist assembly. Active colloids, that consume energy to move, hold similar potential for man-made materials controlled by forces generated from within. Yet, their use as a powerhouse in materials science lacks. Here we show a massive acceleration of the annealing of a monolayer of passive beads by moderate addition of self-propelled microparticles. We rationalize our observations with a model of collisions that drive active fluctuations and activate the annealing. The experiment is quantitatively compared with Brownian dynamic simulations that further unveil a dynamical transition in the mechanism of annealing. Active dopants travel uniformly in the system or co-localize at the grain boundaries as a result of the persistence of their motion. Our findings uncover the potential of internal activity to control materials and lay the groundwork for the rise of materials science beyond equilibrium. article_number: '3380' article_processing_charge: No article_type: original author: - first_name: Sophie full_name: Ramananarivo, Sophie last_name: Ramananarivo - first_name: Etienne full_name: Ducrot, Etienne last_name: Ducrot - first_name: Jérémie A full_name: Palacci, Jérémie A id: 8fb92548-2b22-11eb-b7c1-a3f0d08d7c7d last_name: Palacci orcid: 0000-0002-7253-9465 citation: ama: Ramananarivo S, Ducrot E, Palacci JA. Activity-controlled annealing of colloidal monolayers. Nature Communications. 2019;10(1). doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11362-y apa: Ramananarivo, S., Ducrot, E., & Palacci, J. A. (2019). Activity-controlled annealing of colloidal monolayers. Nature Communications. Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11362-y chicago: Ramananarivo, Sophie, Etienne Ducrot, and Jérémie A Palacci. “Activity-Controlled Annealing of Colloidal Monolayers.” Nature Communications. Springer Nature, 2019. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-11362-y. ieee: S. Ramananarivo, E. Ducrot, and J. A. Palacci, “Activity-controlled annealing of colloidal monolayers,” Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1. Springer Nature, 2019. ista: Ramananarivo S, Ducrot E, Palacci JA. 2019. Activity-controlled annealing of colloidal monolayers. Nature Communications. 10(1), 3380. mla: Ramananarivo, Sophie, et al. “Activity-Controlled Annealing of Colloidal Monolayers.” Nature Communications, vol. 10, no. 1, 3380, Springer Nature, 2019, doi:10.1038/s41467-019-11362-y. short: S. Ramananarivo, E. Ducrot, J.A. Palacci, Nature Communications 10 (2019). date_created: 2021-02-02T13:43:36Z date_published: 2019-07-29T00:00:00Z date_updated: 2023-02-23T13:47:59Z day: '29' ddc: - '530' doi: 10.1038/s41467-019-11362-y extern: '1' external_id: arxiv: - '1909.07382' pmid: - '31358762' file: - access_level: open_access checksum: 70c6e5d6fbea0932b0669505ab6633ec content_type: application/pdf creator: cziletti date_created: 2021-02-02T13:47:21Z date_updated: 2021-02-02T13:47:21Z file_id: '9061' file_name: 2019_NatureComm_Ramananarivo.pdf file_size: 2820337 relation: main_file success: 1 file_date_updated: 2021-02-02T13:47:21Z has_accepted_license: '1' intvolume: ' 10' issue: '1' keyword: - General Biochemistry - Genetics and Molecular Biology - General Physics and Astronomy - General Chemistry language: - iso: eng license: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ month: '07' oa: 1 oa_version: Published Version pmid: 1 publication: Nature Communications publication_identifier: issn: - 2041-1723 publication_status: published publisher: Springer Nature quality_controlled: '1' scopus_import: '1' status: public title: Activity-controlled annealing of colloidal monolayers tmp: image: /images/cc_by.png legal_code_url: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode name: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0) short: CC BY (4.0) type: journal_article user_id: D865714E-FA4E-11E9-B85B-F5C5E5697425 volume: 10 year: '2019' ...