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Active Extensile Stress Promotes 3D Director Orientations and Flows.
Nejad, Mehrana R; Yeomans, Julia M.
Afiliación
  • Nejad MR; The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
  • Yeomans JM; The Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, Department of Physics, University of Oxford, Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom.
Phys Rev Lett ; 128(4): 048001, 2022 Jan 28.
Article en En | MEDLINE | ID: mdl-35148135
We use numerical simulations and linear stability analysis to study an active nematic layer where the director is allowed to point out of the plane. Our results highlight the difference between extensile and contractile systems. Contractile stress suppresses the flows perpendicular to the layer and favors in-plane orientations of the director. By contrast extensile stress promotes instabilities that can turn the director out of the plane, leaving behind a population of distinct, in-plane regions that continually elongate and divide. This supports extensile forces as a mechanism for the initial stages of layer formation in living systems, and we show that a planar drop with extensile (contractile) activity grows into three dimensions (remains in two dimensions). The results also explain the propensity of disclination lines in three dimensional active nematics to be of twist type in extensile or wedge type in contractile materials.

Texto completo: 1 Bases de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Phys Rev Lett Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido

Texto completo: 1 Bases de datos: MEDLINE Idioma: En Revista: Phys Rev Lett Año: 2022 Tipo del documento: Article País de afiliación: Reino Unido