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The interplay between activity and filament flexibility determines the emergent properties of active nematics
Abhijeet Joshi, Elias Putzig, Aparna Baskaran +1
Active nematics are microscopically driven liquid crystals that exhibit dynamical steady states characterized by the creation and annihilation of topological defects. Motivated by…
Insensitivity of active nematic dynamics to topological constraints
Michael M. Norton, Arvind Baskaran, Achini Opathalage +4
Confining a liquid crystal imposes topological constraints on the orientational order, allowing global control of equilibrium systems by manipulation of anchoring boundary conditio…
Noise and diffusion of a vibrated self-propelled granular particle
Lee Walsh, Caleb G. Wagner, Sarah Schlossberg +3
Granular materials are an important physical realization of active matter. In vibration-fluidized granular matter, both diffusion and self-propulsion derive from the same collision…