2 papers
cond-mat.soft2025
Gliding microtubules exhibit tunable collective rotation driven by chiral active forces
Madhuvanthi Guruprasad Athani, Nathan Prouse, Niranjan Sarpangala +11
How chirality propagates across scales remains an open question in many biological and synthetic systems. An especially clear manifestation of this propagation is found in in vitro…
cond-mat.soft2024
Controlling chaos: Periodic defect braiding in active nematics confined to a cardioid
Fereshteh L. Memarian, Derek Hammar, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir +3
This work examines self-mixing in active nematics, a class of fluids in which mobile topological defects drive chaotic flows in a system comprised of biological filaments and molec…