2 papers
cond-mat.soft2023
From Disks to Channels: Dynamics of Active Nematics Confined to an Annulus
Chaitanya Joshi, Zahra Zarei, Michael M. Norton +3
Confinement can be used to systematically tame turbulent dynamics occurring in active fluids. Although periodic channels are the simplest geometries to study confinement numericall…
cond-mat.soft2023
Light-activated microtubule-based 2D active nematic
Zahra Zarei, John Berezney, Alexander Hensley +4
We characterize two-dimensional (2D) microtubule-based active nematics driven by light-responsive kinesin motor clusters. We assess two constructs of optogenetic kinesin: opto-K401…