ArticleScience advances2018
Active nematic emulsions.
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11 citing papers in PubMed, 76 citations in OpenAlex.
- Topological defects lead to energy transfer in active nematics.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Activity drives self-assembly of passive soft inclusions in active nematics.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Topologically reconfigurable nematic emulsions.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Topology controls flow patterns in active double emulsions.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Anomalous dynamics of a passive droplet in active turbulence.Nature communications · 2024Article
- Spontaneous motion of a passive fluid droplet in an active microchannel.Soft matter · 2023Article
- The crucial role of adhesion in the transmigration of active droplets through interstitial orifices.Nature communications · 2023Article
- Sodium caseinate as a particulate emulsifier for making indefinitely recycled pH-responsive emulsions.Chemical science · 2020Article
- Rotation and propulsion in 3D active chiral droplets.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019Article
- Lattice Boltzmann methods and active fluids.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2019Review
- Active nematics.Nature communications · 2018Review
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6 authors at 2 institutions in 2 countries.
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Abstract
The formation of emulsions from multiple immiscible fluids is governed by classical concepts such as surface tension, differential chemical affinity and viscosity, and the action of surface-active agents. Much less is known about emulsification when one of the components is active and thus inherently not constrained by the laws of thermodynamic equilibrium. We demonstrate one such realization consisting in the encapsulation of an active liquid crystal (LC)-like gel, based on microtubules and kinesin molecular motors, into a thermotropic LC. These active nematic emulsions exhibit a variety of dynamic behaviors that arise from the cross-talk between topological defects separately residing in the active and passive components. Using numerical simulations, we show a feedback mechanism by which active flows continuously drive the passive defects that, in response, resolve the otherwise degenerated trajectories of the active defects. Our experiments show that the choice of surfactant, which stabilizes the active/passive interface, allows tuning the regularity of the self-sustained dynamic events. The hybrid active-passive system demonstrated here provides new perspectives for dynamic self-assembly driven by an active material but regulated by the equilibrium properties of the passive component.
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