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Strain rate controls alignment in growing bacterial monolayers
Blake Langeslay, Gabriel Juarez
Growing monolayers of rod-shaped bacteria exhibit local alignment similar to extensile active nematics. When confined in a channel or growing inward from a ring, the local nematic…
Stress and Alignment Response to Curved Obstacles in Growing Bacterial Monolayers
Blake Langeslay, Will Fahy, Gabriel Juarez
Monolayers of growing bacteria, confined within channel geometries, exhibit self-organization into a highly aligned laminar state along the axis of the channel. Although this pheno…
Growth-induced phase changes in swimming bacteria at finite liquid interfaces
Blake Langeslay, Gabriel Juarez
We introduce a system of bacteria confined to a finite 2D oil-water interface and driven on two distinct time scales by motility and by growth. The combined effect of activity on d…
Microdomains and Stress Distributions in Bacterial Monolayers on Curved Interfaces
Blake Langeslay, Gabriel Juarez
Monolayers of growing non-motile rod-shaped bacteria act as active nematic materials composed of hard particles rather than the flexible components of other commonly studied active…
Self-organized dynamics and the transition to turbulence of confined active nematics
Achini Opathalage, Michael M. Norton, Michael P. N. Juniper +4
We study how confinement transforms the chaotic dynamics of bulk microtubule-based active nematics into regular spatiotemporal patterns. For weak confinements, multiple continuousl…
Insensitivity of active nematic dynamics to topological constraints
Michael M. Norton, Arvind Baskaran, Achini Opathalage +4
Confining a liquid crystal imposes topological constraints on the orientational order, allowing global control of equilibrium systems by manipulation of anchoring boundary conditio…