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Floating flocks: Two-dimensional long-range uniaxial order in three-dimensional active fluids
Ananyo Maitra
Elongated active units cannot spontaneously break rotation symmetry in bulk fluids to form nematic or polar phases. This has led to the image of active suspensions as spontaneously…
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Front speed and pattern selection of a propagating chemical front in an active fluid
Clara del Junco, André Estevez-Torres, Ananyo Maitra
Spontaneous pattern formation in living systems is driven by reaction-diffusion chemistry and active mechanics. The feedback between chemical and mechanical forces is often essenti…