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Active matter drives its constituent agents to move autonomously byharnessing free energy, leading to diverse emergent states with relevance toboth biological processes and inanimate functionalities. Achieving maximumreconfigurability of active materials with minimal control remains a desirableyet challenging goal. Here, we employ large-scale, agent-resolved simulationsto demonstrate that modulating the activity of a wet phoretic medium alone cangovern its solid-liquid-gas phase transitions and, subsequently,laminar-turbulent transitions in fluid phases, thereby shaping its emergentpattern. These two progressively emerging transitions, hitherto unreported,bring us closer to understanding the parallels between active matter andtraditional matter. Our work reproduces and reconciles seemingly conflictingexperimental observations on chemically active systems, presenting a unifiedlandscape of phoretic collective dynamics. These findings enhance theunderstanding of long-range, many-body interactions among phoretic agents,offer new insights into their non-equilibrium collective behaviors, and providepotential guidelines for designing reconfigurable materials.

Shaping active matter from crystalline solids to active turbulence