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Scaling regimes of active turbulence with external dissipation
Berta Martínez-Prat, Ricard Alert, Fanlong Meng +5
Active fluids exhibit complex turbulent-like flows at low Reynolds number. Recent work predicted that 2d active nematic turbulence follows universal scaling laws. However, experime…
Active boundary layers
Jérôme Hardoüin, Claire Doré, Justine Laurent +3
The role of boundary layers in conventional liquid crystals is commonly subsumed in their anchoring on confining walls. In the classical view, anchoring enslaves the orientational…
Propulsion and energetics of a minimal magnetic microswimmer
Carles Calero, José García-Torres, Antonio Ortiz-Ambriz +3
In this manuscript we describe the realization of a minimal hybrid microswimmer, composed of a ferromagnetic nanorod and a paramagnetic microsphere. The unbounded pair is propelled…
Coexistence of nonequilibrium phases in assemblies of driven nematic colloids
Josep M. Pagès, Arthur V. Straube, Pietro Tierno +2
We combine experiments, theory, and simulations to investigate the coexistence of nonequilibrium phases emerging from interacting colloidal particles that are electrokinetically pr…
Reconfigurable swarms of colloidal particles electrophoretically drivenin nematic liquid crystals
Sergi Hernàndez-Navarro, Pietro Tierno, Jordi Ignés-Mullol +1
We present experiments where anisometric colloidal microparticles dispersed in a nematic liquid crystal cell with homeotropic anchoring conditions are dynamically assembled by mean…
Patterning active materials with addressable soft interfaces
Pau Guillamat, Jordi Ignés-Mullol, Francesc Sagués
Motor-proteins are responsible for transport inside cells. Harnessing their activity is key towards developing new nano-technologies, or functional biomaterials. Cytoskeleton-like…
Detecting the Escherichia coli metabolic backbone
Oriol Güell, Francesc Sagués, M. Ángeles Serrano
The heterogeneity of reaction fluxes present in a metabolic network within a single flux state can be exploited to construct the so-called backbone as a reduced version of metaboli…
Reconfigurable assembly of nematic colloids commanded by photoactivated surface patterns
Sergi Hernàndez-Navarro, Pietro Tierno, Jordi Ignés-Mullol +1
Different phoretic driving mechanisms have been proposed for the transport of solid or liquid microscopic inclusions in integrated chemical processes. However, the ability to rever…
Assessing the significance of knockout cascades in metabolic networks
Oriol Güell, Francesc Sagués, Georg Basler +2
Complex networks have been shown to be robust against random structural perturbations, but vulnerable against targeted attacks. Robustness analysis usually simulates the removal of…
Network-based confidence scoring system for genome-scale metabolic reconstructions
M. Ángeles Serrano, Francesc Sagués
Reliability on complex biological networks reconstructions remains a concern. Although observations are getting more and more precise, the data collection process is yet error pron…