Episode notes
This week's paper is "Active Solids: Topological Defect Self-Propulsion Without Flow" by Fridtjof Brauns, Myles O’Leary, Arthur Hernandez, Mark J. Bowick, and M. Cristina Marchetti.
Paper: https://journals.aps.org/prl/abstract/10.1103/xv94-xpz2
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Keywords
Theorynematic liquid crystalactive matter