Surface-directed Dynamics in Living Liquid Crystals
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| author | Vats, Aditya Banerjee, Varsha Puri, Sanjay |
| author_facet | Vats, Aditya Banerjee, Varsha Puri, Sanjay |
| contents | We study living liquid crystals (LLCs), which are an amalgam of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) and active matter (AM). These LLCs are placed in contact with surfaces which impose planar/homeotropic boundary conditions on the director field of the LC and the polarization field of the AM. The interplay of LC-AM interactions and the surface-directed conditions yield controlled pattern dynamics in the LLC, which has important technological implications. We discuss two representative examples of this pattern dynamics. |
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| spellingShingle | Surface-directed Dynamics in Living Liquid Crystals Vats, Aditya Banerjee, Varsha Puri, Sanjay Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics We study living liquid crystals (LLCs), which are an amalgam of nematic liquid crystals (LCs) and active matter (AM). These LLCs are placed in contact with surfaces which impose planar/homeotropic boundary conditions on the director field of the LC and the polarization field of the AM. The interplay of LC-AM interactions and the surface-directed conditions yield controlled pattern dynamics in the LLC, which has important technological implications. We discuss two representative examples of this pattern dynamics. |
| title | Surface-directed Dynamics in Living Liquid Crystals |
| topic | Soft Condensed Matter Computational Physics |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.05858 |