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Good morning friends! A bit cloudy today, but a morning with some fresh air is usually a good start.
#goodmorning #morningwalk #getoutside

For everybody who wasn't there, here's what you missed at yesterday's Godot Engine Meetup in Berlin: Grown adults toying around at a kid's playground. 😁 (Note: There were a lot more people! It's just that I took my photos at the end of the event.)
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This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12866 has been replaced.
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Light-responsive active particles in a thermotropic liquid crystal
The development of synthetic microswimmers has advanced our understanding of the fundamental self-propelled mechanisms of living systems. However, there are scarce studies at the microscale within highly structured anisotropic media, such as bacteria or cellular receptors that swim in concentrated solutions of filamentous proteins or lipids with viscoelastic properties. Synthetic liquid crystals (LCs) have the potential to serve as biomimetic surrogates to study the structure and dynamics of li…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.12866 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Light-responsive active particles in a thermotropic liquid crystal
The development of synthetic microswimmers has advanced our understanding of the fundamental self-propelled mechanisms of living systems. However, there are scarce studies at the microscale within highly structured anisotropic media, such as bacteria or cellular receptors that swim in concentrated solutions of filamentous proteins or lipids with viscoelastic properties. Synthetic liquid crystals (LCs) have the potential to serve as biomimetic surrogates to study the structure and dynamics of li…

This https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14628 has been replaced.
initial toot: https://mastoxiv.page/@arXi…

Tunable transport in bi-disperse porous materials with vascular structure
We study transport in synthetic, bi-disperse porous structures, with arrays of microchannels interconnected by a nanoporous layer. These structures are inspired by the xylem tissue in vascular plants, in which sap water travels from the roots to the leaves to maintain hydration and carry micronutrients. We experimentally evaluate transport in three conditions: high pressure-driven flow, spontaneous imbibition, and transpiration-driven flow. The latter case resembles the situation in a living pl…

Tunable transport in bi-disperse porous materials with vascular structure
Olivier Vincent, Th\'eo Tassin, Erik J. Huber, Abraham D. Stroock
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.14628

Tunable transport in bi-disperse porous materials with vascular structure
We study transport in synthetic, bi-disperse porous structures, with arrays of microchannels interconnected by a nanoporous layer. These structures are inspired by the xylem tissue in vascular plants, in which sap water travels from the roots to the leaves to maintain hydration and carry micronutrients. We experimentally evaluate transport in three conditions: high pressure-driven flow, spontaneous imbibition, and transpiration-driven flow. The latter case resembles the situation in a living pl…