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cond-mat.soft2020★ 1 cited
Chirality for crooked curves
Giovanni Dietler, Robert Kusner, Wöden Kusner +2
Chiral objects rotate when placed in a collimated flow or wind. We exploit this hydrodynamic intuition to construct a tensorial chirality measure for rigid filaments and curves. Th…
cond-mat.soft2018★ 25 cited
Periodic motion of sedimenting flexible knots
Magdalena Gruziel, Krishnan Thyagarajan, Giovanni Dietler +3
We study the dynamics of knotted deformable closed chains sedimenting in a viscous fluid. We show experimentally that trefoil and other torus knots often attain a remarkably regula…