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Michael E. Cates

University of Cambridge · GB
Area of research
Materials Chemistry · Condensed Matter Physics
Research interest
Research interests include Material Dynamics and Properties, Micro and Nano Robotics, Surfactants and Colloidal Systems, and Pickering emulsions and particle stabilization.
h-index
86
citations
29,561
works
404
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Recent publications

Optimal Closed-Loop Control of Active Particles and a Minimal Information Engine
Physical Review Letters 2025cited by 14position: contributordoi
Optimal Closed-Loop Control of Active Particles and a Minimal Information Engine
Physical Review Letters 2025cited by 13position: middledoi
Active phase separation: new phenomenology from non-equilibrium physics.
2025cited by 8position: contributordoi
Active particles in moving traps: Minimum work protocols and information efficiency of work extraction
Physical Review E 2025cited by 7position: contributordoi
Statistical properties of microphase and bubbly phase-separated active fluids
Physical Review E 2024cited by 9position: contributordoi
Hyperuniformity in phase ordering: the roles of activity, noise, and non-constant mobility.
2024cited by 5position: contributordoi
Classical Nucleation Theory for Active Fluid Phase Separation
Physical Review Letters 2023cited by 37position: contributordoi
Interface Roughening in Nonequilibrium Phase-Separated Systems
Physical Review Letters 2023cited by 20position: contributordoi
Rheology of Dense Suspensions under Shear Rotation
Physical Review Letters 2023cited by 17position: contributordoi
Wormlike Micelles revisited: A comparison of models for linear rheology
Journal of Non-Newtonian Fluid Mechanics 2023cited by 14position: lastdoi
Tricritical Behavior in Dynamical Phase Transitions
Physical Review Letters 2023cited by 13position: contributordoi
Orientation-Dependent Propulsion of Active Brownian Spheres: From Self-Advection to Programmable Cluster Shapes
Physical Review Letters 2023cited by 11position: contributordoi
Role of initial conditions in one-dimensional diffusive systems: Compressibility, hyperuniformity, and long-term memory
Physical Review E 2022cited by 24position: contributordoi
Power fluctuations in sheared amorphous materials: A minimal model
Physical Review E 2022cited by 3position: contributordoi
Capillary Interfacial Tension in Active Phase Separation
Physical Review Letters 2021cited by 59position: contributordoi
Thermodynamics of Active Field Theories: Energetic Cost of Coupling to Reservoirs
Physical Review X 2021cited by 44position: contributordoi
Collective motion in large deviations of active particles
Physical Review E 2021cited by 38position: contributordoi
Constitutive models for well-entangled living polymers beyond the fast-breaking limit
Journal of Rheology 2021cited by 20position: contributordoi
Bayesian inference across multiple models suggests a strong increase in lethality of COVID-19 in late 2020 in the UK
2021cited by 1position: contributordoi
Thermodynamic cycles with active matter
Physical Review E 2020cited by 54position: contributordoi
Luminescence of YAG:Dy and YAG:Dy,Er crystals to 1700 °C
Measurement Science and Technology 2020cited by 45position: contributordoi
Stealth Entropy Production in Active Field Theories near Ising Critical Points
Physical Review Letters 2020cited by 44position: contributordoi
Absorbing-State Transitions in Granular Materials Close to Jamming
Physical Review Letters 2020cited by 39position: contributordoi
A full-chain tube-based constitutive model for living linear polymers
Journal of Rheology 2020cited by 25position: contributordoi
Conching chocolate is a prototypical transition from frictionally jammed solid to flowable suspension with maximal solid content
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2019cited by 69position: middledoi
Hydrodynamically Interrupted Droplet Growth in Scalar Active Matter
Physical Review Letters 2019cited by 44position: contributordoi
Constitutive Model for Time-Dependent Flows of Shear-Thickening Suspensions
Physical Review Letters 2019cited by 31position: contributordoi
Generalized thermodynamics of phase equilibria in scalar active matter
Physical review. E 2018cited by 186position: middledoi
Spatiotemporal Self-Organization of Fluctuating Bacterial Colonies
Physical Review Letters 2017cited by 42position: middledoi
Tunable shear thickening in suspensions
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2016cited by 109position: middledoi

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Frequent collaborators

· 24 papers (2019–2025)Cesare Nardini · University of Cambridge5 papers (2021–2025)Robert L. Jack · University of Cambridge4 papers (2021–2023)Étienne Fodor · AIP Publishing LLC4 papers (2020–2022)G. Fausti · Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization3 papers (2021–2024)Julien Tailleur · Massachusetts Institute of Technology3 papers (2015–2018) · 3 papers (2015–2018)Alexandre Solon · Massachusetts Institute of Technology3 papers (2015–2018)Christopher Ness · Elsevier, Inc.2 papers (2019–2020)Rosalba Garcia-Millan · King's College London2 papers (2025–2025)Sarah A. M. Loos · Technische Universität Berlin2 papers (2025–2025)Janik Schüttler · University of Cambridge2 papers (2025–2025)Joakim Stenhammar · University of Edinburgh2 papers (2015–2018)Mehran Kardar · Massachusetts Institute of Technology2 papers (2015–2015)Raphael Wittkowski · University of Edinburgh2 papers (2015–2015)Tobias Grafke · New York University1 papers (2017–2017) · 1 papers (2015–2015)Aparna Baskaran · Institut Pasteur1 papers (2015–2015) · 1 papers (2015–2015)Jens Bickmann · University of Münster1 papers (2023–2023)