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How liquid-liquid phase separation induces active spreading
Youchuang Chao, Olinka Ramirez-Soto, Christian Bahr +1
The interplay between phase separation and wetting of multicomponent mixtures is ubiquitous in nature and technology and recently gained significant attention across scientific dis…
Topological Stabilization and Dynamics of Self-propelling Nematic Shells
Babak Vajdi Hokmabad, Kyle A. Baldwin, Carsten Krüger +2
Liquid shells (e.g. double emulsions, vesicles etc.) are susceptible to interfacial instability and rupturing when driven out of mechanical equilibrium. This poses a significant ch…
Curling Liquid Crystal Microswimmers: a cascade of spontaneous symmetry breaking
Carsten Krüger, Gunnar Klös, Christian Bahr +1
We report curling self-propulsion in aqueous emulsions of common mesogenic compounds. Nematic liquid crystal droplets self-propel in a surfactant solution with concentrations above…