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| العنوان: |
Dynamic control of active droplets using light-responsive chiral liquid crystal environment. |
| المؤلفون: |
Jirón, Vanessa1,2 (AUTHOR), Rajabi, Mojtaba1,3 (AUTHOR), Wang, Hao1 (AUTHOR), Lavrentovich, Oleg D.1,2,3 (AUTHOR) olavrent@kent.edu |
| المصدر: |
Communications Physics. 6/21/2024, Vol. 7 Issue 1, p1-9. 9p. |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: |
*LIQUID crystals, *CHOLESTERIC liquid crystals, *OPTICAL control, *BACILLUS subtilis, *ELECTRIC fields, *ACTIVE medium |
| مستخلص: |
Microscopic active droplets are of interest since they can be used to transport matter from one point to another. In this work, we demonstrate an approach to control the direction of active droplet propulsion by a photoresponsive cholesteric liquid crystal environment. The active droplet represents a water dispersion of bacterial Bacillus subtilis microswimmers. When placed in a cholesteric, a surfactant-stabilized active droplet distorts the local director field, producing a point defect-hedgehog, with fore-aft asymmetry, and allows for the chaotic motion of the bacteria inside the droplet to be rectified into directional motion. When the pitch of the cholesteric confined in a sandwich-like cell is altered by light irradiation, the droplet trajectory realigns along a new direction. The strategy allows for a non-contact dynamic control of active droplets trajectories and demonstrates the advantage of orientationally ordered media in control of active matter over their isotropic counterparts. The trajectory of the active droplets in an isotropic environment can be controlled by gradients of chemicals, physical obstacles, or by electric fields, but these methods are either static, transient, or require a complicated design. The authors demonstrate a simple optical method to control the trajectories of active droplets remotely by placing them in a photosensitive cholesteric liquid crystal environment. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR] |
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