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Tunable structure and dynamics of active liquid crystals
Nitin Kumar, Rui Zhang, Juan J. de Pablo +1
Active materials are capable of converting free energy into directional motion, giving rise to striking dynamical phenomena. Developing a general understanding of their structure i…
Trapping and sorting active particles: motility-induced condensation & smectic defects
Nitin Kumar, Rahul Kumar Gupta, Harsh Soni +2
We present an experimental realization of the collective trapping phase transition [Kaiser et al., PRL 108, 268307 (2012)], using motile polar granular rods in the presence of a V-…
Interplay of Structure, Elasticity and Dynamics in Actin-Based Nematic Materials
Rui Zhang, Nitin Kumar, Jennifer Ross +2
Achieving control and tunability of lyotropic materials has been a long-standing goal of liquid crystal research. Here we show that the elasticity of a liquid crystal system consis…
Anisotropic Isometric Fluctuation Relations in experiment and theory on a self-propelled rod
Nitin Kumar, Harsh Soni, Sriram Ramaswamy +1
The Isometric Fluctuation Relation (IFR) [P.I. Hurtado et al., PNAS 108, 7704 (2011)] relates the relative probability of current fluctuations of fixed magnitude in different spati…