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Active viscoelastic nematics with partial degree of order
Stefano Turzi
Continuum models of active nematic gels have proved successful to describe a number of biological systems consisting of a population of rodlike motile subunits in a fluid environme…
Dehydration induced mechanical instabilities in active elastic spherical shells
Michele Curatolo, Gaetano Napoli, Paola Nardinocchi +1
Active-elastic instabilities are common phenomena in the natural world which have the aspect of sudden mechanical morphings. Frequently, the driving force of the instability mechan…
Tumbling in nematic polymers and liquid crystals
Stefano S. Turzi
Most, but not all, liquid crystals tend to align when subject to shear flow, while most nematic polymeric liquid crystals undergo a tumbling instability, where the director rotate…
Active nematic gels as active relaxing solids
Stefano S Turzi
I put forward a continuum theory for active nematic gels, defined as fluids or suspensions of orientable rodlike objects endowed with active dynamics, that is based on symmetry arg…
Viscoelastic nematodynamics
Stefano S. Turzi
Nematic liquid crystals exhibit both crystal-like and fluid-like features. In particular, the propagation of an acoustic wave shows an unexpected occurrence of some of the solid-li…
The delamination of a growing elastic sheet with adhesion
Gaetano Napoli, Stefano Turzi
We study the onset of delamination blisters in a growing elastic sheet adhered to a flat stiff substrate. When the ends of the sheet are kept fixed, its growth arouses residual str…