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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…
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…