Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

Biomaterials, which are substances interacting with biological systems, have been
extensively explored to understand living organisms and obtain scientific inspiration (such …

Odd viscosity is a property of chiral active fluids with broken time-reversal and parity
symmetries. We show that the flow of such a fluid around a rotating axisymmetric body is …

Dynamics of small particles, both living and inanimate, has fascinated scientists for
centuries. Learning how to control it could open technological opportunities in the …

Bacteria thrive in anisotropic media such as biofilms, biopolymer solutions, and soil pores. In
strongly mechanically anisotropic media, physical interactions force bacteria to swim along a …

Bistable devices, which can operate in two field-free stable states, are highly desirable for
develo** smart optical devices with true energy conservation. Cholesteric liquid crystals …

In many situations, bacteria move in complex environments, as soils, oceans or the human
gut-track, where carrier fluids show complex structures associated with non-Newtonian …

We examine the equilibrium configurations of a nematic liquid crystal with an immersed
body in two dimensions. A complex variables formulation provides a means for finding …

The motion of passive particles in a confined square domain filled with active fluids has
been numerically simulated using a direct-fictitious domain method. The ratio of particle …