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SUBMITTER: Lancia F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6868138 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Lancia Federico F Yamamoto Takaki T Ryabchun Alexander A Yamaguchi Tadatsugu T Sano Masaki M Katsonis Nathalie N
Nature communications 20191120 1
The physico-chemical processes supporting life's purposeful movement remain essentially unknown. Self-propelling chiral droplets offer a minimalistic model of swimming cells and, in surfactant-rich water, droplets of chiral nematic liquid crystals follow the threads of a screw. We demonstrate that the geometry of their trajectory is determined by both the number of turns in, and the handedness of, their spiral organization. Using molecular motors as photo-invertible chiral dopants allows convert ...[more]