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In Situ Magnetic Ordering and Microfabrication of Liquid Crystal Networks with Discretized Alignment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Miniaturizing liquid crystal network actuators typically demands costly laser writing or digital light processing. A low‐cost photolithography platform couples rotating photomasks with a Halbach magnetic array to discretize in‐plane molecular alignment down to 50 µm, producing programmable, light‐responsive grippers, checkerboards, and origami‐inspired
Matthew Gene Scarfo, Ramón S. Herrera Restrepo, Irving Hafed Tejedor Garcia, Hamed Shahsavan   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Taming active turbulence with patterned soft interfaces

Nature Communications, 2017
Active nematics consist of self-driven components that develop orientational order and turbulent flow. Here Guillamat et al. investigate an active nematic constrained in a quasi-2D geometrical setup and show that there exists an intrinsic length scale ...
P. Guillamat, J. Ignés-Mullol, F. Sagués   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Optical Detection of Cellular Signals at Material Interfaces

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Emerging functional materials are transforming optical detection of cellular signals. This review highlights optical techniques that exploit the unique optical properties of diverse materials to detect and quantify cellular electrical, chemical, and mechanical signals, and discusses key opportunities and challenges.
Xuchen Ren, Jitong Ren, Zixin Zhang, Koney Eungkon Kim, Francis L. Hong, Yuecheng Peter Zhou   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Collective chemotaxis of active nematic droplets [PDF]

Physical Review E, 2020
Collective chemotaxis plays a key role in the navigation of cell clusters in, e.g., embryogenesis and cancer metastasis. Using the active nematic continuum equations, coupled to a chemical field that regulates activity, we demonstrate and explain a physical mechanism that results in collective chemotaxis.
Hughes, Rian, Yeomans, Julia M.
openaire   +2 more sources

Azobenzene's Cross‐Scale Optics and Photonics: Molecular Photoswitching, Mesoscopic Material Motions, and Adaptive Devices

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Azobenzene photoswitches translate molecular‐scale E/Z photoisomerization into macroscopic material responses and device‐level photonic functions. This Review highlights how azobenzene research has evolved from molecular photochemistry to photoalignment, mass migration, photomechanics, and heat release, ultimately enabling holography, reconfigurable ...
Heeju Son, Soyul Kwak, Heerin Noh, Minsang Kim, Doyeon Noh, Subhayan Chakraborty, Jaewon Lee, YongDeok Cho, Kyeongsoo Kim, Taewoong Eom, Moonyoung Kim, Jangwon Kim, Hoyoung Lee, Soyoung Lee, Jaehun Kim, Grace G. D. Han, Shin‐Tson Wu, Stefano Oscurato, Arri Priimagi, Marina Saphiannikova, Seungwoo Lee   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Maximally mixing active nematics

Physical Review E
Active nematics are an important new paradigm in soft condensed matter systems. They consist of rod-like components with an internal driving force pushing them out of equilibrium. The resulting fluid motion exhibits chaotic advection, in which a small patch of fluid is stretched exponentially in length.
Kevin A. Mitchell, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir, Kevin Geumhan, Spencer A. Smith, Brandon Klein, Daniel A. Beller   +5 more
openaire   +3 more sources

Maximally mixing active nematics [PDF]

, 2023
Active nematics are an important new paradigm in soft condensed matter systems. They consist of rod-like components with an internal driving force pushing them out of equilibrium.
Klein, Brandon, Mitchell, Kevin A., Beller, Daniel A., Sabbir, Md Mainul Hasan, Geumhan, Kevin, Smith, Spencer A.   +5 more
core   +1 more source

Dynamical arrest in active nematic turbulence

Physical Review Research
Active fluids display spontaneous turbulentlike flows known as active turbulence. Recent work revealed that these flows have universal features, independent of the material properties and of the presence of topological defects.
Ido Lavi, Ricard Alert, Jean-François Joanny, Jaume Casademunt   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Clustomesogen Showing Sub‐Zero Liquid Crystal Properties: Supramolecular Assembly Between Cs2[Mo6Ii8(OCOC2F5)6] and Hexaethylenoxide Containing Mesogenic Dimers

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Associating a red‐NIR phosphorescent octahedral hexanuclear molybdenum cluster compound with hexaethyleneoxide chains bearing mesogenic units on both ends leads to an emissive hybrid liquid crystal showing mesomorphism on a very unusual temperature range down to −25°C.
Killiann Heinz, Jeanne Rebours, Zoulikha Zerrouqi, Noée Dumait, Maria Amela‐Cortes, Nikolai Scheuring, Sara Simonovska, Sebastian Marino, Max Ebert, Stéphane Cordier, Sabine Laschat, Yann Molard   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modeling active nematics via the nematic locking principle

Soft Matter
We model microtubule-based active nematics based on the foundational idea that an initial curve following the director field must continue to follow the director field as it evolves. The resulting model shows improved agreement with experiment.
Kevin A. Mitchell, Md Mainul Hasan Sabbir, Sean Ricarte, Brandon Klein, Daniel A. Beller   +4 more
openaire   +3 more sources