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cond-mat.soft2018★ 7 cited
Enhancement of microorganism swimming speed in active matter
Harsh Soni, Robert A. Pelcovits, Thomas R. Powers
We study a swimming undulating sheet in the isotropic phase of an active nematic liquid crystal. Activity changes the effective shear viscosity, reducing it to zero at a critical v…
cond-mat.soft2018★ 63 cited
Trapping and sorting active particles: motility-induced condensation & smectic defects
Nitin Kumar, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Harsh Soni +2
We present an experimental realization of the collective trapping phase transition [Kaiser et al., PRL 108, 268307 (2012)], using motile polar granular rods in the presence of a V-…