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PHYSICAL REVIEW E
Volume 104, Issue 3, Pages -Publisher
AMER PHYSICAL SOC
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.104.034601
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- NSF [MRSEC-1420382, 1336638, MRSEC-2011486]
- Div Of Chem, Bioeng, Env, & Transp Sys
- Directorate For Engineering [1336638] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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This study investigates the dynamics and structure of kinesin-driven microtubule active fluids as the height of the container increases. The activity level, characterized by velocity fluctuations, increases with system size while maintaining small-scale isotropy. The velocity-velocity temporal correlation develops a strong positive correlation at longer times as the confinement level decreases.
We study the influence of solid boundaries on dynamics and structure of kinesin-driven microtubule active fluids as the height of the container, H, increases from hundreds of micrometers to several millimeters. By three-dimensional tracking of passive tracers dispersed in the active fluid, we observe that the activity level, characterized by velocity fluctuations, increases as system size increases and retains a small-scale isotropy. Concomitantly, as the confinement level decreases, the velocity-velocity temporal correlation develops a strong positive correlation at longer times, suggesting the establishment of a memory. We estimate the characteristic size of the flow structures from the spatial correlation function and find that, as the confinement becomes weaker, the correlation length, lc, saturates at approximately 400 microns. This saturation suggests an intrinsic length scale which, along with the small-scale isotropy, demonstrates the multiscale nature of this kinesin-driven bundled microtubule active system.
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