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Analogies between growing dense active matter and soft driven glasses (2020)
Journal Article
Tjhung, E., & Berthier, L. (2020). Analogies between growing dense active matter and soft driven glasses. Physical Review Research, 2(4), Article 043334. https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.2.043334

We develop a minimal model to describe growing dense active matter such as biological tissues, bacterial colonies, and biofilms, which are driven by a competition between particle division and steric repulsion. We provide a detailed numerical analysi... Read More about Analogies between growing dense active matter and soft driven glasses.

Self-propulsion of active droplets without liquid-crystalline order (2020)
Journal Article
Singh, R., Tjhung, E., & Cates, M. E. (2020). Self-propulsion of active droplets without liquid-crystalline order. Physical Review Research, 2(3), Article 032024(R). https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevresearch.2.032024

The swimming of cells, far from any boundary, can arise in the absence of long-range liquid-crystalline order within the cytoplasm, but simple models of this effect are lacking. Here, we present a two-dimensional model of droplet self-propulsion invo... Read More about Self-propulsion of active droplets without liquid-crystalline order.