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Mechanical Clustering of Cells via the ExtraCellular Matrix
Ran Glinowiecki, Shahar Goren, Oren Tchaicheeyan +4
Tissues are composites of living cells and extracellular matrix (ECM), that jointly determine their unique mechanical behavior. Here, we experimentally demonstrate that contractile…
Frank-Read Mechanism in Nematic Liquid Crystals
Cheng Long, Matthew J. Deutsch, Joseph Angelo +4
In a crystalline solid under mechanical stress, a Frank-Read source is a pinned dislocation segment that repeatedly bows and detaches, generating concentric dislocation loops. We d…
Geometry and mechanics of disclination lines in 3D nematic liquid crystals
Cheng Long, Xingzhou Tang, Robin L. B. Selinger +1
In 3D nematic liquid crystals, disclination lines have a range of geometric structures. Locally, they may resemble or defects in 2D nematic phases, or they may have 3…
Three-dimensional modeling of chiral nematic texture evolution under electric switching
Vianney Gimenez-Pinto, Sajedeh Afghah, Robin L. B. Selinger
Chiral nematic liquid crystals exhibit both a helical planar ground state with uniform twist and a metastable defect-rich focal conic texture, and can be switched between the two m…
Gradient-driven diffusion and pattern formation in crowded mixtures
Prithviraj Nandigrami, Brandy Grove, Andrew Konya +1
Gradient-driven diffusion in crowded, multicomponent mixtures is a topic of high interest because of its role in biological processes such as transport in cell membranes. In partia…
Modeling Defects, Shape Evolution, and Programmed Auto-origami in Liquid Crystal Elastomers
Andrew Konya, Vianney Gimenez-Pinto, Robin Selinger
Liquid crystal elastomers represent a novel class of programmable shape-transforming materials whose shape change trajectory is encoded in the material's nematic director field. Us…