Communications Physics (Aug 2021)

Persistent fluid flows defined by active matter boundaries

  • Zijie Qu,
  • Dominik Schildknecht,
  • Shahriar Shadkhoo,
  • Enrique Amaya,
  • Jialong Jiang,
  • Heun Jin Lee,
  • David Larios,
  • Fan Yang,
  • Rob Phillips,
  • Matt Thomson

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42005-021-00703-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 1
pp. 1 – 9

Abstract

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Controlling active matter represents an exciting avenue for studying collective pattern formation. In this article the authors present optical control of persistent flows of active filaments-motor protein mixtures and show how boundaries determine the architecture of active flows