Conveners
(DPMB/DCMMP) T3-1 Soft Matter and Biological Physics Symposium | Symposium sur la matière molle et la physique biologique (DPMB/DPMCM)
- Maria Kilfoil (University of Prince Edward Island / Physics)
Description
Session III: Active Soft Matter
A remarkable diversity of morphologies exists among flagellated bacteria and, more broadly, motile microorganisms. To understand some of the consequences of these design choices, we numerically simulate the swimming motion of flagellated bacteria and model squirmers using a boundary element method. We show that interactions with solid surfaces bounding their fluid environment are particularly...
The material state of embryonic tissues emerges from the collective interactions of cells. Most tissues are soft active materials that can flow or deform. This deformability is shown to be important for proper embryonic development. However, cell and tissue mechanics are experimentally difficult to probe in developing animals. Here, I will discuss our research developing computational and...
Colloids are mesoscopic particles that enable a systematic study of inter-particle interactions in soft materials. The depletion interaction is an attractive effective interaction that can be tuned by polymer additives, while the amplitude and frequency of an external electric field can be used to tune the dipolar interaction. Using these two interactions simultaneously, we create...
