3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Molecular chirality controls droplet division and helical fiber formation in liquid crystal emulsions
Simon Äopar, Mariana V. M. Rodriguez, Peter Marinko +9
Molecular chirality is a source of broken mirror symmetry, but using it to control mesoscale structures with a tunable length scale remains challenging. Here, we demonstrate that a…
cond-mat.soft2025
Scallop Theorem for Swimming in Anisotropic Fluids
Mojtaba Rajabi, Enej Caf, Qi Xing Zhang +5
In isotropic fluids like water, micrometer-scale swimmers have evolved swim strokes to translate despite their tiny size. As described by Purcell in his Scallop Theorem, reciprocal…
cond-mat.soft2024
Nematic liquid crystal flow driven by time-varying active surface anchoring
Seyed Reza Seyednejad, Miha Ravnik
We demonstrate the generation of diverse material flow regimes in nematic liquid cells as driven by time-variable active surface anchoring, including no-net flow, oscillatory flow,…