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PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS
Volume 109, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.109.028103
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- EU network ITN-COMPLOIDS [FP7-234810]
- EPSRC [EP/J007404/1]
- Royal Society
- Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council [EP/J007404/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- EPSRC [EP/J007404/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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We simulate an experiment in which a colloidal probe is pulled through an active nematic fluid. We find that the drag on the particle is non-Stokesian (not proportional to its radius). Strikingly, a large enough particle in contractile fluid (such as an actomyosin gel) can show negative viscous drag in steady state: the particle moves in the opposite direction to the externally applied force. We explain this, and the qualitative trends seen in our simulations, in terms of the disruption of orientational order around the probe particle and the resulting modifications to the active stress.
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