Antipolar ordering of topological defects in active liquid crystals

ATP-driven microtubule-kinesin bundles can self-assemble into two-dimensional active liquid crystals (ALCs) that exhibit a rich creation and annihilation dynamics of topological defects, reminiscent of particle-pair production processes in quantum systems. This recent discovery has sparked considera...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Oza, Anand U, Dunkel, Joern
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: IOP Publishing 2017
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/107773
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8865-2369