ArticleProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America2019
Rotation and propulsion in 3D active chiral droplets.
Article in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 9 papers.
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- Activity drives self-assembly of passive soft inclusions in active nematics.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Topology controls flow patterns in active double emulsions.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Majorana quasiparticles and topological phases in 3D active nematics.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 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
- Theory of defect-mediated morphogenesis.Science advances · 2022Article
- Soft channel formation and symmetry breaking in exotic active emulsions.Scientific reports · 2020Article
- Design of nematic liquid crystals to control microscale dynamics.Liquid crystals reviews · 2020Article
- Lattice Boltzmann methods and active fluids.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2019Review
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Abstract
Chirality is a recurrent theme in the study of biological systems, in which active processes are driven by the internal conversion of chemical energy into work. Bacterial flagella, actomyosin filaments, and microtubule bundles are active systems that are also intrinsically chiral. Despite some exploratory attempt to capture the relations between chirality and motility, many features of intrinsically chiral systems still need to be explored and explained. To address this gap in knowledge, here we study the effects of internal active forces and torques on a 3-dimensional (3D) droplet of cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) embedded in an isotropic liquid. We consider tangential anchoring of the liquid crystal director at the droplet surface. Contrary to what happens in nematics, where moderate extensile activity leads to droplet rotation, cholesteric active droplets exhibit more complex and variegated behaviors. We find that extensile force dipole activity stabilizes complex defect configurations, in which orbiting dynamics couples to thermodynamic chirality to propel screw-like droplet motion. Instead, dipolar torque activity may either tighten or unwind the cholesteric helix and if tuned, can power rotations with an oscillatory angular velocity of 0 mean.
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