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cond-mat.soft2020
Self-propulsion of active droplets without liquid-crystalline order
Rajesh Singh, Elsen Tjhung, Michael E. Cates
The swimming of cells, far from any boundary, can arise in the absence of long-range liquid-crystalline order within the cytoplasm, but simple models of this effect are lacking. He…
cond-mat.stat-mech2020
Analogies between growing dense active matter and soft driven glasses
Elsen Tjhung, Ludovic Berthier
We develop a minimal model to describe growing dense active matter such as biological tissues, bacterial colonies and biofilms, that are driven by a competition between particle di…