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ArticleSmall (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)2025

Directional Swimming of B. Subtilis Bacteria Near a Switchable Polar Surface.

Mahesha Kodithuwakku Arachchige, Zakaria Siddiquee, Hend Baza, Robert Twieg, Oleg D Lavrentovich, Antal Jákli

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Article in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany), 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

1 citing paper in PubMed.

  1. Directional Swimming of B. Subtilis Bacteria Near a Switchable Polar Surface.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2025
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

6 authors.

Mahesha Kodithuwakku ArachchigeDepartment of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.ORCID 0009-0009-3744-6149
Zakaria SiddiqueeDepartment of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.ORCID 0009-0005-5845-9484
Hend BazaDepartment of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0445-1672
Robert TwiegDepartment of Chemistry, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.ORCID 0000-0003-2139-6377
Oleg D LavrentovichDepartment of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.ORCID 0000-0002-0128-0708
Antal JákliDepartment of Physics, Kent State University, Kent, OH, 44242, USA.ORCID 0000-0001-8627-7606

Funding

National Science Foundation DMR-2210083National Science Foundation DMR-2215191National Science Foundation ECCS-2122399
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The dynamics of swimming bacteria depend on the properties of their habitat media. Recently it is shown that the motion of swimming bacteria dispersed directly in a non-toxic water-based lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal can be controlled by the director field of the liquid crystal. Here, we investigate whether the macroscopic polar order of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal (N

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Bacillus subtilisLiquid CrystalsSurface Propertiesbacterialiquid crystalspolarization

Identifiers

PMID39668445
PMCPMC11798350

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