Electrically tunable collective motion of dissipative solitons in chiral nematic films

Understanding of the collective motion seen in biological systems is crucial for development of autonomous robots and swarm computing. The authors introduce an experimental platform with liquid crystal driven by external electric field, that mimics the collective motion of living systems.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Yuan Shen, Ingo Dierking
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29831-2