3 papers
cond-mat.soft2026
Evaporation-Induced Pattern Formation and Wetting in Active Microtubule-Kinesin Droplets
Vahid Nasirimarekani, Mehrana R. Nejad, Olinka Ramírez-Soto +4
Active networks composed of biopolymers and motor proteins provide versatile biomimetic systems that have advanced active matter physics and deepened our understanding of cytoskele…
cond-mat.soft2025
Collective synchrony in confluent, pulsatile epithelia
Wenhui Tang, Mehrana R. Nejad, Adrian F. Pegoraro +2
Collective cell migration lies at the intersection of developmental biology and non-equilibrium physics, where active processes give rise to emergent patterns that are biologically…
cond-mat.soft2023
Zonal flows and reversals of cortically confined active suspensions
J. S. Yodh, F. Giardina, S. Gokhale +1
At sufficiently high concentrations, motile bacteria suspended in fluids exhibit a range of ordered and disordered collective motions. Here we explore the combined effects of confi…