Julia M. Yeomans

TL;DR: In this article, an ordered array of symmetric rotors in an active fluid is used to generate work in a microfluidic system, where the lattice of rotors self-organises into a spin-state where neighboring discs continuously rotate in permanent alternating directions due to combined hydrodynamic and elastic effects.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors demonstrate that the pancake bounce of millimetric water droplets on surfaces patterned with hydrophobic posts can be reproduced on larger scales, using a bed of nails as the structured surface and a water balloon as the water droplet.

TL;DR: It is shown that epithelial cells exhibit large-scale coherent oscillations when constrained within micro-patterns of varying shapes and sizes, and that their period and amplitude are set by the smallest confinement dimension.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors unify two different classes of active matter by using friction as a control parameter to interpolate between wet active systems, whose behaviour is dominated by hydrodynamics, and dry active systems where any flow is screened.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors performed hydrodynamic multiparticle collision dynamics simulations of spherical and elongated particles driven through polymeric fluids containing different concentrations of polymers and found that polymer-depleted regions close to the particles are responsible for an apparent tangential slip velocity which accounts for the measured flow fields and transport velocities.