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Nucleation and shape dynamics of model nematic tactoids around adhesive colloids
Nicholas B. Ludwig, Kimberly Weirich, Eli Alster +4
Recent experiments have shown how nematically-ordered tactoid shaped actin droplets can be reorganized and divided by the action of myosin molecular motors. In this paper, we consi…
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…
Encoding Mechano-Memories in Actin Networks
Sayantan Majumdar, Louis C. Foucard, Alex J. Levine +1
Understanding the response of complex materials to external force is central to fields ranging from materials science to biology. Here, we describe a novel type of mechanical adapt…