Nature Communications (Apr 2022)

Electrically tunable collective motion of dissipative solitons in chiral nematic films

  • Yuan Shen,
  • Ingo Dierking

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-29831-2
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Understanding of the collective motion seen in biological systems is crucial for development of autonomous robots and swarm computing. The authors introduce an experimental platform with liquid crystal driven by external electric field, that mimics the collective motion of living systems.