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Phase Separation and Interfaces in Active Liquid Crystals
Phase Separation and Interfaces in Active Liquid Crystals
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- 자료유형
- 학위논문 서양
- 최종처리일시
- 20260202103540
- ISBN
- 9798291538630
- DDC
- 530
- 저자명
- Gulati, Paarth.
- 서명/저자
- Phase Separation and Interfaces in Active Liquid Crystals
- 발행사항
- [Sl] : University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025
- 발행사항
- Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2025
- 형태사항
- 178 p
- 주기사항
- Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 87-02, Section: B.
- 주기사항
- Advisor: Marchetti, M. Cristina.
- 학위논문주기
- Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025.
- 초록/해제
- 요약Active matter systems are made up of energy-consuming units that drive themselves and lead to collective behaviors far from equilibrium. These systems show up in biology or can be generated synthetically, and they are often chaotic. But that chaos is also full of possibility. If we can learn how to control or regulate active flows, we can uncover universal principles underlying biological organization and find new ways to design functional, responsive materials.This thesis explores one promising direction for such control. We study mixtures where an active nematic fluid coexists with a passive fluid and the mixture undergoes phase separation. This exploration is inspired by both materials science, where multiphase systems are used to tune mechanical response, and biology, where intracellular phase separation is actively regulated and helps organize cellular function and response. Using a continuum model that combines a conserved density field with nematic order, we explore how active stresses and phase separation shape each other and give rise to new emergent behavior.We find that interfaces in these systems can support traveling waves driven entirely by active stresses, in the absence of inertia, which can be understood as a non-reciprocal coupling between the interface fluctuations and the internal orientational degrees of freedom of the active fluid. At larger activities the nonlinear dynamics produce asymmetric undulations, which transition to spontaneous self-folding of the interface. This offers a new way to measure bulk activity from interface dynamics in experimental realizations, and a technique to engineer active micro-emulsions. In a bulk system, we show how active flows can arrest coarsening and generate dynamical, connected filamentary networks of the active fluid. This finding can allow for precise control of the fluid microstructure and opens up a route for dynamical control of its bulk rheological properties. The results presented in this thesis show that activity and phase separation together can create dynamical structures that are both self-organized and controllable.Altogether, this work offers a minimal framework for understanding how local energy injection and compositional demixing can combine to structure nonequilibrium matter. It opens the door to more robust control strategies in active systems and suggests new perspectives for engineering soft materials.
- 일반주제명
- Physics
- 일반주제명
- Condensed matter physics
- 일반주제명
- Computational physics
- 키워드
- Nematic fluid
- 기타저자
- University of California, Santa Barbara Physics
- 기본자료저록
- Dissertations Abstracts International. 87-02B.
- 전자적 위치 및 접속
- 로그인 후 원문을 볼 수 있습니다.
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■5021 ▼aThesis (Ph.D.)--University of California, Santa Barbara, 2025.
■520 ▼aActive matter systems are made up of energy-consuming units that drive themselves and lead to collective behaviors far from equilibrium. These systems show up in biology or can be generated synthetically, and they are often chaotic. But that chaos is also full of possibility. If we can learn how to control or regulate active flows, we can uncover universal principles underlying biological organization and find new ways to design functional, responsive materials.This thesis explores one promising direction for such control. We study mixtures where an active nematic fluid coexists with a passive fluid and the mixture undergoes phase separation. This exploration is inspired by both materials science, where multiphase systems are used to tune mechanical response, and biology, where intracellular phase separation is actively regulated and helps organize cellular function and response. Using a continuum model that combines a conserved density field with nematic order, we explore how active stresses and phase separation shape each other and give rise to new emergent behavior.We find that interfaces in these systems can support traveling waves driven entirely by active stresses, in the absence of inertia, which can be understood as a non-reciprocal coupling between the interface fluctuations and the internal orientational degrees of freedom of the active fluid. At larger activities the nonlinear dynamics produce asymmetric undulations, which transition to spontaneous self-folding of the interface. This offers a new way to measure bulk activity from interface dynamics in experimental realizations, and a technique to engineer active micro-emulsions. In a bulk system, we show how active flows can arrest coarsening and generate dynamical, connected filamentary networks of the active fluid. This finding can allow for precise control of the fluid microstructure and opens up a route for dynamical control of its bulk rheological properties. The results presented in this thesis show that activity and phase separation together can create dynamical structures that are both self-organized and controllable.Altogether, this work offers a minimal framework for understanding how local energy injection and compositional demixing can combine to structure nonequilibrium matter. It opens the door to more robust control strategies in active systems and suggests new perspectives for engineering soft materials.
■590 ▼aSchool code: 0035.
■650 4▼aPhysics
■650 4▼aCondensed matter physics
■650 4▼aComputational physics
■653 ▼aActive matter systems
■653 ▼aNematic fluid
■653 ▼aAsymmetric undulations
■653 ▼aRobust control strategies
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■690 ▼a0611
■690 ▼a0216
■71020▼aUniversity of California, Santa Barbara▼bPhysics.
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■792 ▼a2025
■793 ▼aEnglish
■85640▼uhttp://www.riss.kr/pdu/ddodLink.do?id=T17357637▼nKERIS▼z이 자료의 원문은 한국교육학술정보원에서 제공합니다.
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