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cond-mat.soft2008★ 113 cited
Complex Spontaneous Flows and Concentration Banding in Active Polar Films
Luca Giomi, M. Cristina Marchetti, Tanniemola B. Liverpool
We study the dynamical properties of active polar liquid crystalline films. Like active nematic films, active polar films undergo a dynamical transitions to spontaneously flowing s…
cond-mat.soft2008★ 34 cited
Toroidal Crystals
Luca Giomi, Mark J. Bowick
Crystalline assemblages of identical sub-units packed together and elastically bent in the form of a torus have been found in the past ten years in a variety of systems of surprisi…