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Luke Neville^1,2, Jens Eggers¹, Tanniemola B Liverpool^1,2

¹School of Mathematics, University of Bristol, Fry Building, Bristol BS8 1UG, UK. luke.neville@bristol.ac.uk.

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Active nematic liquid crystals exert forces on nearby disks. Disk attraction or repulsion depends on active stress and anchoring, offering control over self-assembly.

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Area of Science:

Soft Matter Physics
Active Matter Systems
Liquid Crystal Science

Background:

Active nematic liquid crystals exhibit complex fluid dynamics driven by self-propelled constituent elements.
Interactions between colloidal particles and confining surfaces are crucial for understanding self-organization phenomena.

Purpose of the Study:

To theoretically investigate the effective forces acting on hard disks near walls within active nematic liquid crystals.
To explore how active stresses and anchoring conditions influence disk dynamics and interactions.

Main Methods:

Theoretical determination of effective forces on hard disks.
Derivation of exact force expressions under specific conditions (close proximity to wall, slow flows).

Main Results:

Effective forces and disk dynamics are contingent on active nematic properties and anchoring conditions.
Extensile active stresses attract planar-anchored disks; contractile stresses repel them.
Normal-anchored disks show reversed behavior: attraction in contractile systems, repulsion in extensile systems.

Conclusions:

The interplay between active stresses and anchoring dictates disk-wall interactions.
Tunable forces provide a mechanism for controlling the self-assembly of active nematic colloids.