Taming active turbulence with patterned soft interfaces

Active nematics consist of self-driven components that develop orientational order and turbulent flow. Here Guillamat et al. investigate an active nematic constrained in a quasi-2D geometrical setup and show that there exists an intrinsic length scale that determines the geometry in all forcing regi...

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Main Authors: P. Guillamat, J. Ignés-Mullol, F. Sagués
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-09-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00617-1