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Thermal buckling and symmetry breaking in thin ribbons under compression
Paul Z. Hanakata, Sourav S. Bhabesh, Mark J. Bowick +2
Understanding thin sheets, ranging from the macro to the nanoscale, can allow control of mechanical properties such as deformability. Out-of-plane buckling due to in-plane compress…
The role of fluid flow in the dynamics of active nematic defects
Luiza Angheluta, Zhitao Chen, M. Cristina Marchetti +1
We adapt the Halperin-Mazenko formalism to analyze two-dimensional active nematics coupled to a generic fluid flow. The governing hydrodynamic equations lead to evolution laws for…
Fluctuations can induce local nematic order and extensile stress in monolayers of motile cells
Farzan Vafa, Mark J. Bowick, Boris I. Shraiman +1
Recent experiments in various cell types have shown that two-dimensional tissues often display local nematic order, with evidence of extensile stresses manifest in the dynamics of…
Topological active matter
Suraj Shankar, Anton Souslov, Mark J. Bowick +2
Active matter encompasses different nonequilibrium systems in which individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces or motion at the microscale. This review pro…
Multi-defect Dynamics in Active Nematics
Farzan Vafa, Mark J. Bowick, M. Cristina Marchetti +1
Recent experiments and numerical studies have drawn attention to the dynamics of active nematics. Two-dimensional active nematics flow spontaneously and exhibit spatiotemporal chao…
Shape and size changes of adherent elastic epithelia
Benjamin Loewe, Francesco Serafin, Suraj Shankar +2
Epithelial tissues play a fundamental role in various morphogenetic events during development and early embryogenesis. Although epithelial monolayers are often modeled as two-dimen…