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Surface-directed Dynamics in Living Liquid Crystals
Published 11 Jan 2024 in cond-mat.soft and physics.comp-ph | (2401.05858v1)
Abstract: 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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