Perspectives in active liquid crystals

Apala Majumdar; M. Cristina Marchetti; Epifanio G. Virga

doi:10.1098/rsta.2013.0373

Perspectives in active liquid crystals

Apala Majumdar, M. Cristina Marchetti, Epifanio G. Virga

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Abstract

Active soft matter is a young, growing field, with potential applications to a wide variety of systems. This Theme Issue explores this emerging new field by highlighting active liquid crystals. The collected contributions bridge theory to experiment, mathematical theories of passive and active nematics, spontaneous flows to defect dynamics, microscopic to continuum levels of description, spontaneous activity to biological activation.While the perspectives offered here only span a small part of this rapidly evolving field, we trust that they might provide the interested reader with a taste for this new class of non-equilibrium systems and their rich behaviour.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	20130373
Journal	Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences
Volume	372
Issue number	2029
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0373
State	Published - Nov 28 2014

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Keywords

Active colloids
Active liquid crystals
Defect dynamics
Multi-scale modelling
Spontaneous flows

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Mathematics(all)
Engineering(all)
Physics and Astronomy(all)

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Majumdar, A., Marchetti, M. C., & Virga, E. G. (2014). Perspectives in active liquid crystals. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, 372(2029), [20130373]. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2013.0373

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