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Out-of-equilibrium interactions and collective locomotion of colloidal spheres with squirming of nematoelastic multipoles
Bohdan Senyuk, Jin-Sheng Wua, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Many living and artificial systems show a similar emergent behavior and collective motions on different scales, starting from swarms of bacteria to synthetic active particles, herd…
Photosynthetically-powered phototactic active nematic fluids and gels
Andrii Repula, Colin Gates, Jeffrey C. Cameron +1
One of the most ancient forms of life dating to ~3.5 billion years ago, cyanobacteria are highly abundant organisms that convert light into energy and motion, often within conjoine…
Topological solitonic macromolecules
Hanqing Zhao, Boris A. Malomed, Ivan I. Smalyukh
Being ubiquitous, solitons have particle-like properties, exhibiting behaviour often associated with atoms. Bound solitons emulate dynamics of molecules, though solitonic analogues…
Unavoidable emergent biaxiality in chiral molecular-colloidal hybrid liquid crystals
Jin-Sheng Wu, Marina Torres Lazaro, Souvik Ghosh +3
Chiral nematic or cholesteric liquid crystals (LCs) are mesophases with long-ranged orientational order featuring a quasi-layered periodicity imparted by a helical configuration bu…
Sculpting liquid crystal skyrmions with external flows
Rodrigo C. V. Coelho, Hanqing Zhao, Mykola Tasinkevych +2
We investigate, using experiments and numerical simulations, the distortions and the alignment of skyrmions in the liquid crystal under external flows for a range of average flow v…