Topological states in chiral active matter: Dynamic blue phases and active half-skyrmions

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Spontaneous shear flow in confined cellular nematics

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The mitotic spindle is chiral due to torques within microtubule bundles

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Geometry and Mechanics of Microdomains in Growing Bacterial Colonies

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Transformation between meron and skyrmion topological spin textures in a chiral magnet

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Tunable structure and dynamics of active liquid crystals

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Hydrodynamic instabilities in active cholesteric liquid crystals

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Topological defects control collective dynamics in neural progenitor cell cultures

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Topological defects in epithelia govern cell death and extrusion

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Spontaneous formation and dynamics of half-skyrmions in a chiral liquid-crystal film

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Contractile and chiral activities codetermine the helicity of swimming droplet trajectories

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Topological defects in confined populations of spindle-shaped cells

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Command of active matter by topological defects and patterns

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Cholesteric liquid crystals in rectangular microchannels: skyrmions and stripes

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Stabilization of active matter by flow-vortex lattices and defect ordering

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Cellular chirality arising from the self-organization of the actin cytoskeleton

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Active gel physics

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Blowing magnetic skyrmion bubbles

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Self-assembly and electrostriction of arrays and chains of hopfion particles in chiral liquid crystals

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Geometry and Topology of Turbulence in Active Nematics

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Vorticity, defects and correlations in active turbulence

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Guidance of collective cell migration by substrate geometry

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Phase-Synchronized State of Oriented Active Fluids

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Confinement Stabilizes a Bacterial Suspension into a Spiral Vortex

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Active chiral fluids

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Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter

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Meso-scale turbulence in living fluids

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The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter

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Chiral Paramagnetic Skyrmion-like Phase in MnSi

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Biomechanical ordering of dense cell populations

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