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Tuning nonlinear waves in nonreciprocal active filaments
Sami C. Al-Izzi, Jack Binysh, Yao Du +2
The instabilities of slender structures power biological locomotion across scales, and offer a compelling method to actuate soft robots. Nonreciprocal elastic solids have been foun…
Curved Odd Elasticity
Yuan Zhou, Lazaros Tsaloukidis, Jack Binysh +4
Living materials such as membranes, cytoskeletal assemblies, cell collectives and tissues can often be described as active solids---materials that are energized from within, with e…
Nonreciprocal buckling makes active filaments polyfunctional
Sami C. Al-Izzi, Yao Du, Jonas Veenstra +5
Active filaments are a workhorse for propulsion and actuation across biology, soft robotics and mechanical metamaterials. However, artificial active rods suffer from limited robust…
Wave coarsening drives time crystallization in active solids
Jonas Veenstra, Jack Binysh, Vito Seinen +6
When metals are magnetized, emulsions phase separate, or galaxies cluster, domain walls and patterns form and irremediably coarsen over time. Such coarsening is universally driven…
Geometry of the vapor layer under a Leidenfrost hydrogel sphere
Vicente L. Diaz-Melian, Isaac C. D. Lenton, Jack Binysh +2
A floating Leidenfrost droplet exhibits curvature inversion of its underside, due to the balance of vapor pressure and surface tension. Using interferometric imaging, we find diffe…
More is less in unpercolated active solids
Jack Binysh, Guido Baardink, Jonas Veenstra +2
A remarkable feat of active matter physics is that systems as diverse as collections of self-propelled particles, nematics mixed with molecular motors, and interacting robots can a…
The 2024 Motile Active Matter Roadmap
Gerhard Gompper, Howard A. Stone, Christina Kurzthaler +29
Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental aspects of many living and engineering systems. Here, the scale of biological agents covers a wide range, from nanomotors, cytoskelet…
Twisted fibre: a photonic topological insulator
Nathan Roberts, Brook Salter, Jack Binysh +2
The breaking and enforcing of symmetries is a crucial ingredient in designing topologically robust materials. While magnetic fields can break time-reversal symmetry to create Chern…
Modeling Leidenfrost levitation of soft elastic solids
Jack Binysh, Indrajit Chakraborty, Mykyta V. Chubynsky +4
The elastic Leidenfrost effect occurs when a vaporizable soft solid is lowered onto a hot surface. Evaporative flow couples to elastic deformation, giving spontaneous bouncing or s…
Active elastocapillarity in soft solids with negative surface tension
Jack Binysh, Thomas R. Wilks, Anton Souslov
Active solids consume energy to allow for actuation, shape change, and wave propagation not possible in equilibrium. Whereas active interfaces have been realized across many experi…
Geometry of Bend: Singular Lines and Defects in Twist-Bend Nematics
Jack Binysh, Joseph Pollard, Gareth P. Alexander
We describe the geometry of bend distortions in twist-bend nematic liquid crystals in terms of their fundamental degeneracies, which we call lines. These represent a new class…
Three-Dimensional Active Defect Loops
Jack Binysh, Žiga Kos, Simon Čopar +2
We describe the flows and morphological dynamics of topological defect lines and loops in three-dimensional active nematics and show, using theory and numerical modelling, that the…
Stable and Unstable Vortex Knots in Excitable Media
Jack Binysh, Carl A. Whitfield, Gareth P. Alexander
We study the dynamics of knotted vortices in a bulk excitable medium using the FitzHugh-Nagumo model. From a systematic survey of all knots of at most eight crossings we establish…
Maxwell's Theory of Solid Angle and the Construction of Knotted Fields
Jack Binysh, Gareth P. Alexander
We provide a systematic description of the solid angle function as a means of constructing a knotted field for any curve or link in . This is a purely geometric const…