2 search results for “nematic order” in the Public website
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Gauge theory and nematic order : the rich landscape of orientational phase transition
Promotor: J. Zaanen
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From forming embryo to cancer metastasis: the significance of collective cell movement
Luca Giomi has the first results of his ERC consolidator grant. He discovered that epithelial cells move collectively but in different ways, depending on the scale you look at. It is hexatic at small scales, and becomes nematic at larger scales: it is a multiscale order. This collective movement of…