3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Spatiotemporal crystallization of an active fluid
Olga Bantysh, Ramon Reigada, Rodrigo C. V. Coelho +3
The emergence of long-range spatiotemporal order from intrinsic chaos is a central challenge in far-from-equilibrium physics. In active fluids, such as cytoskeletal networks drivin…
cond-mat.soft2025
Soft Colloidal Robots: Magnetically Guided Liquid Crystal Torons for Targeted Micro-Cargo Delivery
Joel Torres, Rodrigo C. V. Coelho, Patrick Oswald +2
Quasiparticles in liquid crystals, such as torons and skyrmions, represent a new class of topologically protected solitonic excitations, offering a promising route toward soft micr…
cond-mat.soft2024
Topological defects lead to energy transfer in active nematics
Daniel J. G. Pearce, Berta Martínez-Prat, Jordi Ignés-Mullol +1
Active nematics are fluids in which the components have nematic symmetry and are driven out of equilibrium due to the microscopic generation of an active stress. When the active st…