Self-propulsion of active droplets without liquid-crystalline order
The swimming of cells, far from any boundary, can arise in the absence of long-range liquid-crystalline order within the cytoplasm, but simple models of this effect are lacking. Here, we present a two-dimensional model of droplet self-propulsion involving two scalar fields, representing the cytoplas...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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American Physical Society
2020-07-01
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Series: | Physical Review Research |
Online Access: | http://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevResearch.2.032024 |