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physics.bio-ph2022
Mechano-lithography: stress anisotropy driven nematic order in growing three-dimensional bacterial biofilms
Changhao Li, Japinder Nijjer, Luyi Feng +3
Living active collectives have evolved with remarkable self-patterning ability to meet the physical and biological constraints for growth and survival. However, how complex multice…
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…