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Acousto-microfluidic Control of Liquid Crystals
Gustavo A. Vasquez-Montoya, Tadej Emersic, Noe Atzin +7
The optical properties of liquid crystals serve as the basis for display, diagnostic, and sensing technologies. Such properties are generally controlled by relying on electric fiel…
Dynamics of active defects on the anisotropic surface of an ellipsoidal droplet
Martina Clairand, Ali Mozaffari, Jérôme Hardoüin +6
Cells are fundamental building blocks of living organisms displaying an array of shapes, morphologies, and textures that encode specific functions and physical behaviors. Elucidati…
Catapulting of topological defects through elasticity bands in active nematics
Nitin Kumar, Rui Zhang, Steven A. Redford +2
Active materials are those in which individual, uncoordinated local stresses drive the material out of equilibrium on a global scale. Examples of such assemblies can be seen across…
Thickness-dependent spin bistable transitions in single-crystalline molecular 2D material
John Koptur-Palenchar, Miguel Gakiya-Teruya, Duy Le +7
The advent of two-dimensional (2D) crystals has led to numerous scientific breakthroughs. Conventional 2D systems have in-plane covalent bonds and a weak out-of-plane van-der-Waals…
Transformation between elastic dipoles, quadrupoles, octupoles and hexadecapoles driven by surfactant self-assembly in nematic emulsion
Bohdan Senyuk, Ali Mozaffari, Kevin Crust +3
Emulsions comprising isotropic fluid drops within a nematic host are of interest for applications ranging from biodetection to smart windows, which rely on changes of molecular ali…
Coarse-grained Soft-Clusters Remain non-Diffusing in the Melt State
Qing-Zhi Zou, Yihui Zhu, Yifu Ruan +2
Melts of 3-dimensional dendritic beads-springs, namely coarse-grained soft-clusters, are studied by molecular dynamics simulations. The goal is to elucidate the unique dynamics of…
Machine learning active-nematic hydrodynamics
Jonathan Colen, Ming Han, Rui Zhang +10
Hydrodynamic theories effectively describe many-body systems out of equilibrium in terms of a few macroscopic parameters. However, such hydrodynamic parameters are difficult to der…
Sculpting stable structures in pure liquids
Tadej Emeršič, Rui Zhang, Žiga Kos +4
Pure liquids in thermodynamic equilibrium are structurally homogeneous. In liquid crystals, flow and light pulses are used to create reconfigurable domains with polar order. Moreov…
Structuring Stress for Active Materials Control
Rui Zhang, Steven A. Redford, Paul V. Ruijgrok +8
Active materials are capable of converting free energy into mechanical work to produce autonomous motion, and exhibit striking collective dynamics that biology relies on for essent…
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…
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…
Mesoscale Structure of Chiral Nematic Shells
Ye Zhou, Ashley Guo, Rui Zhang +5
There is considerable interest in understanding and controlling topological defects in nematic liquid crystals (LCs). Confinement, in the form of droplets, has been particularly ef…