Active Fréedericksz Transition in Active Nematic Droplets

Active nematic liquid crystals have the remarkable ability to spontaneously deform and flow in the absence of any external driving force. While living materials with orientational order, such as the mitotic spindle, can self-assemble in quiescent active phases, reconstituted active systems often dis...

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Published in:	Physical Review X
Main Authors:	Salman Alam, Bibi Najma, Abhinav Singh, Jeremy Laprade, Gauri Gajeshwar, Hannah G. Yevick, Aparna Baskaran, Peter J. Foster, Guillaume Duclos
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	American Physical Society 2024-10-01
Online Access:	http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevX.14.041002