3 papers
q-bio.QM2022
Biofilms as self-shaping growing nematics
Japinder Nijjer, Mrityunjay Kothari, Changhao Li +7
Active nematics are the nonequilibrium analog of passive liquid crystals in which anisotropic units consume free energy to drive emergent behavior. Similar to liquid crystal (LC) m…
cond-mat.soft2020
Controlled Propagation and Jamming of a Delamination Front
Mrityunjay Kothari, Zoë S. Lemon, Christine Roth +1
We study the birth and propagation of a delamination front in the peeling of a soft, weakly adhesive layer. In a controlled-displacement setting, the layer partially detaches via a…
cond-mat.soft2020
Effect of Elasticity on Phase Separation in Heterogeneous Systems
Mrityunjay Kothari, Tal Cohen
A recent study has demonstrated that phase separation in binary liquid mixtures is arrested in the presence of elastic networks and can lead to a nearly uniformly-sized distributio…