Time-modulated Chiral Solids

ORAL

Abstract

The shape of passive solids and liquids is typically determined by the time-independent interactions between thermally fluctuating constituents.

By contrast, in active and driven materials, the interactions can be modulated in time opening a new design axis.

Using an external field, we drive magnetic colloids to rotate with a rotational frequency that is modulated in time, generating non-trivial structure.

We show how the structures we observe are created as a result of time modulated bulk stresses and orientationally dependent surface forces.

* University of Chicago Materials Research Science and Engineering Center, DMR-2011854.NSF DMR-1905974, NSF EFRI NewLAW 1741685 and the Packard Foundation.

Presenters

  • Yehuda A Ganan

    University of Chicago

Authors

  • Yehuda A Ganan

    University of Chicago

  • Ephraim S Bililign

    University of Chicago

  • Alexis Poncet

    Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, ENS Lyon

  • Denis Bartolo

    Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon

  • William Irvine

    The University of Chicago, University of Chicago