Search Results - "Arratia, Paulo E"
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Mechanical and microscopic properties of the reversible plastic regime in a 2D jammed material
Published in Physical review letters (15-01-2014)“…At the microscopic level, plastic flow of a jammed, disordered material consists of a series of particle rearrangements that cannot be reversed by subsequent…”
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The propagation of active-passive interfaces in bacterial swarms
Published in Nature communications (18-12-2018)“…Propagating interfaces are ubiquitous in nature, underlying instabilities and pattern formation in biology and material science. Physical principles governing…”
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Flow Resistance and Structures in Viscoelastic Channel Flows at Low Re
Published in Physical review letters (08-11-2019)“…The flow of viscoelastic fluids in channels and pipes remains poorly understood, particularly at low Reynolds numbers. Here, we investigate the flow of…”
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Aerodynamics-assisted, efficient and scalable kirigami fog collectors
Published in Nature communications (16-09-2021)“…To address the global water shortage crisis, one of the promising solutions is to collect freshwater from the environmental resources such as fog. However, the…”
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The perpetual fragility of creeping hillslopes
Published in Nature communications (23-06-2021)“…Soil creeps imperceptibly but relentlessly downhill, shaping landscapes and the human and ecological communities that live within them. What causes this…”
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Author Correction: Origins of complexity in the rheology of Soft Earth suspensions
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Origins of complexity in the rheology of Soft Earth suspensions
Published in Nature communications (28-08-2024)“…When wet soil becomes fully saturated by intense rainfall, or is shaken by an earthquake, it may fluidize catastrophically. Sand-rich slurries are treated as…”
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The (In)sensitivity of Granular Creep to Materials and Boundaries
Published in Geophysical research letters (16-12-2023)“…Soils around the planet creep, despite wide variations in particle properties and environments. This sub‐yield “flow” of soil interacts with a variety of…”
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Formation of stable aggregates by fluid-assembled solid bridges
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (18-02-2020)“…When a colloidal suspension is dried, capillary pressure may overwhelm repulsive electrostatic forces, assembling aggregates that are out of thermal…”
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To biofilm or not to biofilm
Published in eLife (21-07-2022)“…A new model helps to predict under which conditions a species of bacteria will switch to a static lifestyle…”
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Flagellar swimming in viscoelastic fluids: role of fluid elastic stress revealed by simulations based on experimental data
Published in Journal of the Royal Society interface (01-10-2017)“…Many important biological functions depend on microorganisms' ability to move in viscoelastic fluids such as mucus and wet soil. The effects of fluid…”
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A high-shear, low Reynolds number microfluidic rheometer
Published in Microfluidics and nanofluidics (01-05-2013)“…We present a microfluidic rheometer that uses in situ pressure sensors to measure the viscosity of liquids at low Reynolds number. Viscosity is measured in a…”
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Model-independent phenotyping of C. elegans locomotion using scale-invariant feature transform
Published in PloS one (27-03-2015)“…To uncover the genetic basis of behavioral traits in the model organism C. elegans, a common strategy is to study locomotion defects in mutants. Despite…”
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Multi-environment model estimation for motility analysis of Caenorhabditis elegans
Published in PloS one (22-07-2010)“…The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans is a well-known model organism used to investigate fundamental questions in biology. Motility assays of this small…”
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Sticking Together: Injectable Granular Hydrogels with Increased Functionality via Dynamic Covalent Inter‐Particle Crosslinking
Published in Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) (01-09-2022)“…Granular hydrogels are an exciting class of microporous and injectable biomaterials that are being explored for many biomedical applications, including…”
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Particle diffusion in active fluids is non-monotonic in size
Published in Soft matter (01-01-2016)“…We experimentally investigate the effect of particle size on the motion of passive polystyrene spheres in suspensions of Escherichia coli. Using particles…”
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Active Reversible Swimming of Magnetically Assembled “Microscallops” in Non-Newtonian Fluids
Published in Langmuir (30-06-2020)“…Miniaturized devices capable of active swimming at low Reynolds numbers are of fundamental importance and possess potential biomedical utility. The design of…”
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Effect of fluid elasticity on the emergence of oscillations in an active elastic filament
Published in Journal of the Royal Society interface (01-05-2024)“…Many microorganisms propel themselves through complex media by deforming their flagella. The beat is thought to emerge from interactions between forces of the…”
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Bacteria hinder large-scale transport and enhance small-scale mixing in time-periodic flows
Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences - PNAS (05-10-2021)“…Understanding mixing and transport of passive scalars in active fluids is important to many natural (e.g., algal blooms) and industrial (e.g., biofuel, vaccine…”
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Quenching active swarms: effects of light exposure on collective motility in swarming Serratia marcescens
Published in Journal of the Royal Society interface (01-07-2019)“…Swarming colonies of the light-responsive bacteria Serratia marcescens grown on agar exhibit robust fluctuating large-scale flows that include arrayed…”
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