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20242026
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9 papers

cond-mat.soft2026

Anisotropic Diffusion in Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal using Fluorescence Recovery After Photobleaching

Kyu Hwan Choi, Jiyong Cheon, Joonwoo Jeong +1

Anisotropic diffusion governs transport in a wide range of soft and biological materials, where microstructure and molecular interactions jointly shape how matter moves. Here, we q…

cond-mat.soft2025

Colloidal hydrodynamic interactions in viscoelastic fluids

Dae Yeon Kim, Sachit G. Nagella, Saksham Malik +4

The motion of suspended colloidal particles generates fluid disturbances in the surrounding medium that create interparticle interactions. While such colloidal hydrodynamic interac…

cond-mat.soft2025

Learning Continuum-level Closures For Control of Interacting Active Particles

Titus Quah, Sho C. Takatori, James B. Rawlings

Active matter swarms -- collectives of self-propelled particles that could self-assemble, ferry microscopic cargo, or endow materials with dynamic properties -- remain hard to stee…

cond-mat.soft2025

Phase field model for viscous inclusions in anisotropic networks

Aakanksha Gubbala, Anika M. Jena, Daniel P. Arnold +1

The growth of viscous two-dimensional lipid domains in contact with a viscoelastic actin network was recently shown to exhibit unusual lipid domain ripening due to the geometry and…

cond-mat.soft2025

Direct experimental measurement of many-body hydrodynamic interactions with optical tweezers

Dae Yeon Kim, Sachit G. Nagella, Kyu Hwan Choi +1

Many-body hydrodynamic interactions (HIs) play an important role in the dynamics of fluid suspensions. While many-body HIs have been studied extensively using particle simulations,…

cond-mat.soft2024

Motility Modulates the Partitioning of Bacteria in Aqueous Two-Phase Systems

Jiyong Cheon, Kyu Hwan Choi, Kevin J. Modica +3

We study the partitioning of motile bacteria in an aqueous two-phase mixture of dextran (DEX) and polyethylene glycol (PEG), which can phase separate into DEX-rich and PEG-rich pha…