ERC Consolidator Grant · 2019
Hexatic hydrodynamics: from driven soft matter to biological tissues
How do hexatics flow? Forty years after Nelson’s and Halperin’s first prediction of the existence of this phase of two-dimensional matter, intermediate between crystalline solid and isotropic liquid, this seemingly elementary question is still unanswered. Whereas the delicate nature of hexatics could partially justify this oversight, recent findings in tissue mechanics have created the urgent demand to fill this gap, by providing this phase with unexpected biological relevance. Like two-dimensional crystals on the verge of melting, tissues are often neither ordered solids nor disordered liquids, but inhabit a continuum of intermediate states known as the epithelial-mesenchymal spectrum.…
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