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arXiv 2001.05622cond-mat.soft
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由图案化的液晶凝聚的游动细菌的极性射流

Polar jets of swimming bacteria condensed by a patterned liquid crystal

Taras Turiv, Runa Koizumi, Kristian Thijssen, Mikhail M. Genkin, Hao Yu, Chenhui Peng, Qi-Huo Wei, Julia M. Yeomans, Igor S. Aranson, Amin Doostmohammadi, Oleg D. Lavrentovich

摘要:

活性物质表现出显著的集体行为,其中由活性粒子连续产生的流动与这些粒子的取向顺序交织在一起。这种关系仍然知之甚少,因为活动和秩序难以独立控制。在这里,我们展示了这种相互作用的重要方面,通过探索游泳细菌在液晶环境中的动态与预先设计的周期性的张开和弯曲的分子取向。细菌从弯曲区域排出并凝结成极性射流,极性射流沿着张开区域单向地传播和运输货物。即使当局部浓度超过非图案化系统中弯曲不稳定性的阈值时,细菌射流也保持稳定。集体极地推进和不同的作用弯曲和张开的对流扩散模型和数值模拟,处理系统作为一个两相的主动对流解释。预图案化液晶介质将游泳细菌的混沌运动流线化为极性射流的能力,可以沿着预先设计的轨迹携带货物,为细胞分选,微尺度递送和软微机器人的潜在应用打开了大门。

英文摘要:

Active matter exhibits remarkable collective behavior in which flows, continuously generated by active particles, are intertwined with the orientational order of these particles. The relationship remains poorly understood as the activity and order are difficult to control independently. Here we demonstrate important facets of this interplay by exploring dynamics of swimming bacteria in a liquid crystalline environment with pre-designed periodic splay and bend in molecular orientation. The bacteria are expelled from the bend regions and condense into polar jets that propagate and transport cargo unidirectionally along the splay regions. The bacterial jets remain stable even when the local concentration exceeds the threshold of bending instability in a non-patterned system. Collective polar propulsion and different role of bend and splay are explained by an advection-diffusion model and by numerical simulations that treat the system as a two-phase active nematic. The ability of prepatterned liquid crystalline medium to streamline the chaotic movements of swimming bacteria into polar jets that can carry cargo along a predesigned trajectory opens the door for potential applications in cell sorting, microscale delivery and soft microrobotics.

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