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  • Topologically protected vortex knots are shown to undergo fusion and fission, with electric pulses acting as a switch between the two processes. This might enable applications in electro-optics and photonics.

    • Darian Hall
    • Jung-Shen Benny Tai
    • Ivan I. Smalyukh
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 22, P: 103-111

  • Hopf solitons are three-dimensional particle-like field distortions with nontrivial topology. Tai et al. show stable Hopf solitons in a liquid crystal material in the absence of an electric field or geometric confinement, their transformation and hopping-like dynamics in response to electric pulses.

    • Jung-Shen B. Tai
    • Jin-Sheng Wu
    • Ivan I. Smalyukh
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-12

  • It is commonly assumed that bacterial cells within biofilms are glued together by matrix components, but the details are poorly understood. Here, Moreau et al. show how dynamic changes in attractive and repulsive interactions between cells and various matrix components drive biofilm growth and disassembly in Vibrio cholerae.

    • Alexis Moreau
    • Danh T. Nguyen
    • Jing Yan
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 16, P: 1-16

  • Confined biofilms can shape themselves and their boundary to modify their internal organisation. This mechanism could inform the development of active materials that control their own geometry.

    • Japinder Nijjer
    • Changhao Li
    • Jing Yan
    Research
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 19, P: 1936-1944

  • Topological defect structures that swim have been realized in liquid crystals. Now, a range of structures with topology reminiscent of a Möbius strip swim and transform into one another.

    • Hanqing Zhao
    • Jung-Shen B. Tai
    • Ivan I. Smalyukh
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 19, P: 451-459

  • Structures containing multiple skyrmions inside a larger skyrmion—called skyrmion bags—are experimentally created in liquid crystals and theoretically predicted in magnetic materials. These may have applications in information storage technology.

    • David Foster
    • Charles Kind
    • Ivan I. Smalyukh
    Research
    Nature Physics
    Volume: 15, P: 655-659