ArticlePhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2014
Defect dynamics in active nematics.
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- Synthetic Active Liquid Crystals Powered by Acoustic Waves.Advanced materials (Deerfield Beach, Fla.) · 2025Article
- Asymmetric fluctuations and self-folding of active interfaces.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
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- Kinetic Theory of Self-Propelled Particles with Nematic Alignment.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Machine learning topological defects in confluent tissues.Biophysical reports · 2024Article
- Probing active nematics with in situ microfabricated elastic inclusions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2024Article
- [The Dynamic Model of the Active-Inactive Cell Interface].Sichuan da xue xue bao. Yi xue ban = Journal of Sichuan University. Medical science edition · 2024Article
- Imaging actin organisation and dynamics in 3D.Journal of cell science · 2024Article
- Spontaneous flows and quantum analogies in heterogeneous active nematic films.Communications physics · 2024Article
- Physically informed data-driven modeling of active nematics.Science advances · 2023Article
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Abstract
Topological defects are distinctive signatures of liquid crystals. They profoundly affect the viscoelastic behaviour of the fluid by constraining the orientational structure in a way that inevitably requires global changes not achievable with any set of local deformations. In active nematic liquid crystals, topological defects not only dictate the global structure of the director, but also act as local sources of motion, behaving as self-propelled particles. In this article, we present a detailed analytical and numerical study of the mechanics of topological defects in active nematic liquid crystals.
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