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cond-mat.soft2018
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…
cond-mat.soft2018
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-…