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Bend Instabilities and Topological Turbulence in Shear-Aligned Living Liquid Crystal
Hend Baza, Fei Chen, Taras Turiv +2
Flagellated microswimmers B. Subtilis dispersed in a nematic phase of a lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal form a living liquid crystal (LLC). The combination of the passive and ac…
High order nonlinear electrophoresis in a nematic liquid crystal
Mojtaba Rajabi, Taras Turiv, Bing-Xiang Li +3
Electrophoresis is the motion of particles relative to a surrounding fluid driven by a uniform electric field. In conventional electrophoresis, the electrophoretic velocity grows l…
Directional self-locomotion of active droplets enabled by nematic environment
Mojtaba Rajabi, Hend Baza, Taras Turiv +1
Active matter comprised of self-propelled interacting units holds a major promise for extraction of useful work from its seemingly chaotic out-of-equilibrium dynamics. Streamlining…
Shear-induced polydomain structures of nematic lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal disodium cromoglycate
Hend Baza, Taras Turiv, Bing-Xiang Li +4
Lyotropic chromonic liquid crystals (LCLCs) represent aqueous dispersions of organic disk-like molecules that form cylindrical aggregates. Despite the growing interest in these mat…
Control of microswimmers by spiral nematic vortices: transition from individual to collective motion and contraction, expansion, and stable circulation of bacterial swirls
Runa Koizumi, Taras Turiv, Mikhail M. Genkin +6
Active systems comprised of self-propelled units show fascinating transitions from Brownian-like dynamics to collective coherent motion. Swirling of swimming bacteria is a spectacu…
Topology control of human cells monolayer by liquid crystal elastomer
Taras Turiv, Jess Krieger, Greta Babakhanova +5
Biological cells in living tissues form dynamic patterns with local orientational order and topological defects. Here we demonstrate an approach to produce cell monolayer with the…
Polar jets of swimming bacteria condensed by a patterned liquid crystal
Taras Turiv, Runa Koizumi, Kristian Thijssen +8
Active matter exhibits remarkable collective behavior in which flows, continuously generated by active particles, are intertwined with the orientational order of these particles. T…
Sorting and separation of microparticles by surface properties using liquid crystal-enabled electro-osmosis
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo +2
Sorting and separation of microparticles is a challenging problem of interdisciplinary nature. Existing technologies can differentiate microparticles by their bulk properties, such…
Electrically driven dynamic three-dimensional solitons in nematic liquid crystals
Bing-Xiang Li, Volodymyr Borshch, Rui-Lin Xiao +4
Electric field induced collective reorientation of nematic molecules placed between two flat parallel electrodes is of importance for both fundamental science and practical applica…
Liquid crystal elastomer coatings with programmed response of surface profile
Greta Babakhanova, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo +5
Stimuli-responsive liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) with a strong coupling of orientational molecular order and rubber-like elasticity, show a great potential as working elements i…
Command of active matter by topological defects and patterns
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo +2
Self-propelled bacteria are marvels of nature with a potential to power dynamic materials and microsystems of the future. The challenge is in commanding their chaotic behavior. By…
Controlling placement of nonspherical (boomerang) colloids in nematic cells with photopatterned director
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Rui Zhang +5
Placing colloidal particles in predesigned sites represents a major challenge of the current state-of-the-art colloidal science. Nematic liquid crystals with spatially varying dire…
Control of colloidal placement by modulated molecular orientation in nematic cells
Chenhui Peng, Taras Turiv, Yubing Guo +3
Colloids self-assemble into various organized superstructures determined by particle interactions. There is a tremendous progress in both the scientific understanding and applicati…
Anomalous Brownian motion of colloidal particle in a nematic environment: effect of the director fluctuations
T. Turiv, A. Brodin, V. Nazarenko
As recently reported [Turiv T. et al., Science, 2013, Vol. 342, 1351], fluctuations in the orientation of the liquid crystal (LC) director can transfer momentum from the LC to a co…