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Crowded transport within networked representations of complex geometries
Daniel B. Wilson, Francis G. Woodhouse, Matthew J. Simpson +1
Transport in crowded, complex environments occurs across many spatial scales. Geometric restrictions can hinder the motion of individuals and, combined with crowding between indivi…
Reversible signal transmission in an active mechanical metamaterial
Alexander P Browning, Francis G Woodhouse, Matthew J Simpson
Mechanical metamaterials are designed to enable unique functionalities, but are typically limited by an initial energy state and require an independent energy input to function rep…
Displacement of transport processes on networked topologies
Daniel B. Wilson, Ruth E. Baker, Francis G. Woodhouse
Consider a particle whose position evolves along the edges of a network. One definition for the displacement of a particle is the length of the shortest path on the network between…
Autonomous actuation of zero modes in mechanical networks far from equilibrium
Francis G. Woodhouse, Henrik Ronellenfitsch, Jörn Dunkel
A zero mode, or floppy mode, is a non-trivial coupling of mechanical components yielding a degree of freedom with no resistance to deformation. Engineered zero modes have the poten…
Functional control of network dynamics using designed Laplacian spectra
Aden Forrow, Francis G. Woodhouse, Jörn Dunkel
Complex real-world phenomena across a wide range of scales, from aviation and internet traffic to signal propagation in electronic and gene regulatory circuits, can be efficiently…
Topology-dependent density optima for efficient simultaneous network exploration
Daniel B. Wilson, Ruth E. Baker, Francis G. Woodhouse
A random search process in a networked environment is governed by the time it takes to visit every node, termed the cover time. Often, a networked process does not proceed in isola…
Information transmission and signal permutation in active flow networks
Francis G. Woodhouse, Joanna B. Fawcett, Jörn Dunkel
Recent experiments show that both natural and artificial microswimmers in narrow channel-like geometries will self-organise to form steady, directed flows. This suggests that netwo…
Active matter logic for autonomous microfluidics
Francis G. Woodhouse, Jörn Dunkel
Chemically or optically powered active matter plays an increasingly important role in materials design but its computational potential has yet to be explored systematically. The co…
Mode selection in compressible active flow networks
Aden Forrow, Francis G. Woodhouse, Jörn Dunkel
Coherent, large scale dynamics in many nonequilibrium physical, biological, or information transport networks are driven by small-scale local energy input. Here, we introduce and e…
Stochastic cycle selection in active flow networks
Francis G. Woodhouse, Aden Forrow, Joanna B. Fawcett +1
Active biological flow networks pervade nature and span a wide range of scales, from arterial blood vessels and bronchial mucus transport in humans to bacterial flow through porous…
Ferromagnetic and antiferromagnetic order in bacterial vortex lattices
Hugo Wioland, Francis G. Woodhouse, Jörn Dunkel +1
Despite their inherent non-equilibrium nature, living systems can self-organize in highly ordered collective states that share striking similarities with the thermodynamic equilibr…
Membrane Viscosity Determined from Shear-Driven Flow in Giant Vesicles
Aurelia R. Honerkamp-Smith, Francis G. Woodhouse, Vasily Kantsler +1
The viscosity of lipid bilayer membranes plays an important role in determining the diffusion constant of embedded proteins and the dynamics of membrane deformations, yet it has hi…
Cytoplasmic Streaming in Plant Cells Emerges Naturally by Microfilament Self-Organization
Francis G. Woodhouse, Raymond E. Goldstein
Many cells exhibit large-scale active circulation of their entire fluid contents, a process termed cytoplasmic streaming. This phenomenon is particularly prevalent in plant cells,…
Confinement Stabilizes a Bacterial Suspension into a Spiral Vortex
Hugo Wioland, Francis G. Woodhouse, Jörn Dunkel +2
Confining surfaces play crucial roles in dynamics, transport and order in many physical systems, but their effects on active matter, a broad class of dynamically self-organizing sy…
Shear-Driven Circulation Patterns in Lipid Membrane Vesicles
Francis G. Woodhouse, Raymond E. Goldstein
Recent experiments have shown that when a near-hemispherical lipid vesicle attached to a solid surface is subjected to a simple shear flow it exhibits a pattern of membrane circula…
Spontaneous Circulation of Confined Active Suspensions
Francis G. Woodhouse, Raymond E. Goldstein
Many active fluid systems encountered in biology are set in total geometric confinement. Cytoplasmic streaming in plant cells is a prominent and ubiquitous example, in which cargo-…