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Active dislocations and topological traps govern dynamics of spiraling filamentous cyanobacteria
Xingting Gong, Manu Prakash
Activity can organize matter in unique configurations inaccessible to equilibrium systems, including a sundry of spiraling shapes seen in nature that range from galaxies to living…
Self-learning mechanical circuits
Vishal P. Patil, Ian Ho, Manu Prakash
Adaptivity and learning are ubiquitous in living systems, from cytoplasm and biofilms to animal flocks. However, the problem of designing nonliving mechanical systems capable of se…
Two-component Marangoni-contracted droplets: friction and shape
Adrien Benusiglio, Nate Cira, Manu Prakash
When a mixture of propylene glycol and water is deposited on a clean glass slide, it forms a droplet of a given apparent contact angle rather than spreading as one would expect on…
Two-component self-contracted droplets: long-range attraction and confinement effects
Adrien Benusiglio, Nate Cira, Anna Wei Lai +1
Marangoni self-contracted droplets are formed by a mixture of two liquids, one of larger surface tension and larger evaporation rate than the other. Due to evaporation, the droplet…