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Odd dynamics of living chiral crystals
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Active crystals are highly ordered structures that emerge from the self-organization of motile objects, and have been widely studied in synthetic1,2 and bacterial3,4 active matter. Whether persistent crystalline order can emerge in groups of autonomously developing multicellular organisms is currently unknown. Here we show that swimming starfish embryos spontaneously assemble into chiral crystals that span thousands of spinning organisms and persist for tens of hours. Combining experiments, theory and simulations, we demonstrate that the formation, dynamics and dissolution of these living crystals are controlled by the hydrodynamic properties and the natural development of embryos. Remarkably, living chiral crystals exhibit self-sustained chiral oscillations as well as various unconventional deformation response behaviours recently predicted for odd elastic materials5,6. Our results provide direct experimental evidence for how non-reciprocal interactions between autonomous multicellular components may facilitate non-equilibrium phases of chiral active matter. Experiments show that swimming starfish embryos spontaneously assemble into large chiral crystals that exhibit self-sustained chiral oscillations and unconventional deformation responses characteristic of odd elastic materials.
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- Authors
- Tan, T. H., Mietke, A., Li, J., Chen, Y., Higinbotham, H., Foster, P. J., Gokhale, S., Dunkel, J., & Fakhri, N.
- Venue
- Nature
- Published
- 2022-07-13
- Volume
- 607
- Issue
- 7918
- Pages
- 287-293
- ISSN
- 0028-0836 (ISSN-L)
- 1476-4687
- OpenAlex
- W4285083294
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- 280
- References
- 46
- FWCI
- 20.74
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
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