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SUBMITTER: Kumar D
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4577185 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Kumar Deepak D Nitsure Nitin N Bhattacharya S S Ghosh Shankar S
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20150831 37
A monolayer of granular spheres in a cylindrical vial, driven continuously by an orbital shaker and subjected to a symmetric confining centrifugal potential, self-organizes to form a distinctively asymmetric structure which occupies only the rear half-space. It is marked by a sharp leading edge at the potential minimum and a curved rear. The area of the structure obeys a power-law scaling with the number of spheres. Imaging shows that the regulation of motion of individual spheres occurs via tog ...[more]