'Living' Colloidal Liquid Crystals

Project Information

[LC]2

Grant agreement ID: 851196

DOI

10.3030/851196

Project closed

EC signature date 5 November 2019

Start date 1 December 2019

End date 31 May 2025

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost

€ 1 402 345,00

EU contribution

€ 1 402 345,00

Coordinated by

THE UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
United Kingdom

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Publications

Peer reviewed articles (25)

Motility induced phase separation of deformable cells

Author(s): Austin Hopkins; Benjamin Loewe; Michael Chiang; Davide Marenduzzo; M. Cristina Marchetti
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 19, 2023, Page(s) 8172-8178, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01059g

Entangled nematic disclinations using multi-particle collision dynamics

Author(s): Louise C. Head, Yair A. G. Fosado, Davide Marenduzzo, Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 20, 2024, Page(s) 7157-7173, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00436a

Spontaneous self-constraint in active nematic flows

Author(s): Louise C. Head; Claire Doré; Ryan R. Keogh; Lasse Bonn; Giuseppe Negro; Davide Marenduzzo; Amin Doostmohammadi; Kristian Thijssen; Teresa López-León; Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Nature Physics, 2024, Page(s) 1-9, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02336-5

Active nematics in corrugated channels

Author(s): Jaideep P. Vaidya, Tyler N. Shendruk, Sumesh P. Thampi
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 20, 2024, Page(s) 8230-8245, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00760c

Complex-tensor theory of simple smectics

Author(s): Jack Paget; Marco G. Mazza; Andrew J. Archer; Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 14(1), 2023, Page(s) 1048, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-023-36506-z

The type IV pilus chemoreceptor PilJ controls chemotaxis of one bacterial species towards another

Author(s): Kaitlin D. Yarrington,Tyler N. Shendruk,Dominique H. Limoli
Published in: PLoS Biology, Issue 22(2), 2024, Page(s) e3002488, ISSN 1544-9173
Publisher: Public Library of Science
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pbio.3002488

Dynamics of polymers in coarse-grained nematic solvents

Author(s): Zahra K. Valei, Karolina Wamsler, Alex J. Parker, Therese A. Obara, Alexander R. Klotz, Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 21, 2025, Page(s) 361-375, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4sm00968a

Smectic layering: Landau theory for a complex-tensor order parameter,

Author(s): J. Paget; U. Albert; M.G. Mazza; A.J. Archer; T.N. Shendruk
Published in: Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical, Issue 55, 2022, ISSN 1751-8113
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1751-8121/ac80df

Majorana quasiparticles and topological phases in 3D active nematics

Author(s): Louise C. Head, Giuseppe Negro, Livio N. Carenza, Nathan Johnson, Ryan R. Keogh, Giuseppe Gonnella, Alexander Morozov, Enzo Orlandini, Tyler N. Shendruk, Adriano Tiribocchi, Davide Marenduzzo
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, Page(s) e2405304121, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2405304121

Multiparticle collision framework for active polar fluids

Author(s): Oleksandr Baziei, Benjamín Loewe, Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 111, 2025, Page(s) 015416, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.111.015416

Submersed micropatterned structures control active nematic flow, topology, and concentration.

Author(s): Kristian Thijssen; Kristian Thijssen; Dimitrius A. Khaladj; S. Ali Aghvami; S. Ali Aghvami; Mohamed Amine Gharbi; Seth Fraden; Julia M. Yeomans; Linda S. Hirst; Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, Issue 118 (38), 2021, Page(s) e2106038118, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2102.10184

Intercellular friction and motility drive orientational order in cell monolayers

Author(s): Michael Chiang, Austin Hopkins, Benjamin Loewe, M. Cristina Marchetti, Davide Marenduzzo
Published in: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Issue 121, 2024, Page(s) e2319310121, ISSN 0027-8424
Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.2319310121

Driven topological transitions in active nematic films

Author(s): David P. Rivas, Tyler N. Shendruk, Robert R. Henry, Daniel H. Reich, Robert L. Leheny
Published in: Soft Matter, 2020, Page(s) 1-8, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d0sm00693a

Active Darcy’s Law

Author(s): Ryan R. Keogh, Timofey Kozhukhov, Kristian Thijssen, Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 132, 2025, Page(s) 188301, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.132.188301

Helical flow states in active nematics

Author(s): R.R. Keogh; S. Chandragiri; B. Loewe; T. Ala-Nissila; S.P. Thampi; T.N. Shendruk
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 106, 2022, Page(s) L012602, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.l012602

Multiphase field model of cells on a substrate: From three dimensional to two dimensional

Author(s): Michael Chiang, Austin Hopkins, Benjamin Loewe, Davide Marenduzzo, M. Cristina Marchetti
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 110, 2024, Page(s) 044403, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society (APS)
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.110.044403

Anisotropic run-and-tumble-turn dynamics

Author(s): Loewe, Benjamin; Shendruk, Tyler N.
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 20, 2023, Page(s) 1133-1150, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sm00589e

Collective Dynamics of Model Pili-Based Twitcher-Mode Bacilliforms

Author(s): Andrew M. Nagel, Michael Greenberg, Tyler N. Shendruk, Hendrick W. de Haan
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 10/1, 2020, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-020-67212-1

Local Yield and Compliance in Active Cell Monolayers

Author(s): Austin Hopkins; Michael Chiang; Benjamin Loewe; Davide Marenduzzo; M. Cristina Marchetti
Published in: Physical Review Letters, Issue 129, 2022, Page(s) 148101, ISSN 0031-9007
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physrevlett.129.148101

Topology controls flow patterns in active double emulsions

Author(s): Giuseppe Negro, Louise C. Head, Livio N. Carenza, Tyler N. Shendruk, Davide Marenduzzo, Giuseppe Gonnella, Adriano Tiribocchi
Published in: Nature Communications, Issue 16, 2025, Page(s) 1412, ISSN 2041-1723
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-56236-8

Lock-key microfluidics: simulating nematic colloid advection along wavy-walled channels

Author(s): Karolina Wamsler, Louise C. Head, Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Soft Matter, Issue 20, 2024, Page(s) 3954-3970, ISSN 1744-683X
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d3sm01536j

Mitigating density fluctuations in particle-based active nematic simulations

Author(s): Timofey Kozhukhov, Benjamin Loewe, Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: Communications Physics, Issue 7, 2024, Page(s) 251, ISSN 2399-3650
Publisher: Springer Science and Business Media LLC
DOI: 10.1038/s42005-024-01734-2

Fluctuation-induced dynamics of nematic topological defects

Author(s): Lasse Bonn, Aleksandra Ardaševa, Romain Mueller, Tyler N. Shendruk, and Amin Doostmohammadi
Published in: Physical Review E, Issue 106(4), 2022, Page(s) 044706, ISSN 2470-0045
Publisher: American Physical Society
DOI: 10.1103/physreve.106.044706

Passive Janus Particles Are Self-propelled in Active Nematics

Author(s): Benjamin Loewe; Tyler N. Shendruk
Published in: New Journal of Physic, Issue 24, 2022, Page(s) 012001, ISSN 1367-2630
Publisher: Institute of Physics Publishing
DOI: 10.1088/1367-2630/ac3b70

Mesoscopic simulations of active nematics

Author(s): T. Kozhukhov; T.N. Shendruk
Published in: Science Advances, 2022, Page(s) abo5788, ISSN 2375-2548
Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
DOI: 10.1126/sciadv.abo5788

Non-peer reviewed articles (1)

Defects show self-constraint in active nematics

Author(s): T.N. Shendruk
Published in: Nature Physics, 2024, ISSN 1745-2473
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41567-023-02352-5