Fig. 5: Extensile two-core emulsion with homeotropic anchoring: Chaotic regime.
From: Topology controls flow patterns in active double emulsions
a–h Different configurations of a two-core emulsion for ζ = 0.08. In this regime the charged loop departs from the spatio-temporally ordered flow states, continuously stretching and writhing into complex conformations (a–d). The continual stretching/shrinking and + 1/2-driven threading dynamics eventually facilitates the loop to undergo splitting and recombination dynamics, which leads to multiple loops (e–h), with different possible combinations of charged and uncharged loops.
