Smart soft materials are envisioned to be the building blocks of the next generation of
advanced devices and digitally augmented technologies. In this context, liquid crystals (LCs) …

Bacteria are among the oldest and most abundant species on Earth. Bacteria successfully
colonize diverse habitats and play a significant role in the oxygen, carbon, and nitrogen …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are ubiquitous in display technologies. The orientational ordering in the
nematic phase of LCs gives rise to structural anisotropy, the ability to form topological …

We review the literature on swimming in complex fluids. A classification is proposed by
comparing the length-and timescales of a swimmer with those of nearby obstacles …

Active matter exemplified by suspensions of motile bacteria or synthetic self-propelled
particles exhibits a remarkable propensity to self-organization and collective motion. The …

Active matter composed of self-propelled interacting units holds a major promise for the
extraction of useful work from its seemingly chaotic dynamics. Streamlining active matter is …

Using dynamic light scattering, we study orientational fluctuation modes in the nematic
phase of a self-assembled lyotropic chromonic liquid crystal (LCLC) disodium cromoglycate …

Active matter exhibits remarkable collective behaviour in which flows, continuously
generated by active particles, are intertwined with the orientational order of these particles …

Active colloids in liquid crystals (ACLCs) are an active matter with qualitatively new facets of
behavior as compared to active matter that becomes isotropic when relaxed into an …

Liquid crystals (LCs) are widely known for their use in liquid crystal displays (LCDs). Indeed,
LCDs represent one of the most successful technologies developed to date using a …