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Quasi long-ranged order in two-dimensional active liquid crystals
Livio Nicola Carenza, Josep-Maria Armengol-Collado, Dimitrios Krommydas +1
Quasi-long ranged order is the hallmark of two-dimensional liquid crystals. At equilibrium, this property implies that the correlation function of the local orientational order par…
Designing highly efficient lock-and-key interactions in anisotropic active particles
Solenn Riedel, Ludwig A. Hoffmann, Luca Giomi +1
Cluster formation of microscopic swimmers is key to the formation of biofilms and colonies, efficient motion and nutrient uptake, but, in the absence of other interactions, require…
Theory of cellular homochirality and trait evolution in flocking systems
Ludwig A. Hoffmann, Luca Giomi
Chirality is a feature of many biological systems and much research has been focused on understanding the origin and implications of this property. Famously, sugars and amino acids…
Collective epithelial migration mediated by the unbinding of hexatic defects
Dimitrios Krommydas, Livio Nicola Carenza, Luca Giomi
Collective cell migration in epithelia relies on cell intercalation: a local remodelling of the cellular network that allows neighbouring cells to swap their positions. Unlike foam…
Polymorphism in tubulin assemblies: a mechanical model
Ireth García-Aguilar, Steven Zwaan, Luca Giomi
We investigate the mechanical origin of polymorphic structures in two-dimensional tubulin assemblies, of which microtubules are the best known example. These structures feature twi…
Tuneable defect-curvature coupling and topological transitions in active shells
Ludwig A. Hoffmann, Livio Nicola Carenza, Luca Giomi
Recent experimental observations have suggested that topological defects can facilitate the creation of sharp features in developing embryos. Whereas these observations echo establ…