Nature Communications (Jun 2017)

The emergence and transient behaviour of collective motion in active filament systems

  • Ryo Suzuki,
  • Andreas R. Bausch

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-00035-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Self-organization is observed in cytoskeletal systems but emergence of order from disorder is poorly understood. Using a high density actomyosin system, the authors capture the transition from disorder to order, which is driven by enhanced alignment effects caused by increase in multi-filament collisions.