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Regular Article

Hydrodynamic instabilities in active cholesteric liquid crystals 50

Carl A. Whitfield, Tapan Chandra Adhyapak, Adriano Tiribocchi, Gareth P. Alexander, Davide Marenduzzo and Sriram Ramaswamy

Published online: 24 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11536-2

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Regular Article

Generalization of the Ericksen-Leslie theory 48

Carlindo Vitoriano

Published online: 24 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11537-1

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Regular Article

Polymer chain collapse induced by many-body dipole correlations 47

Yu. A. Budkov, N. N. Kalikin and A. L. Kolesnikov

Published online: 18 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11533-5

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Regular Article

Are midge swarms bound together by an effective velocity-dependent gravity? 46

Andrew M. Reynolds, Michael Sinhuber and Nicholas T. Ouellette

Published online: 14 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11531-7

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Regular Article

Exploring the physics of sand drawings: The role of craters, furrows and piles 45

Jorge González-Gutiérrez and J. C. Ruiz-Suárez

Published online: 12 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11534-4

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Regular Article

Thixotropy and shear thinning of lubricated contacts with confined membranes 44

Thomas Le Goff, Tung B. T. To and Olivier Pierre-Louis

Published online: 11 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11532-6

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Tips and Tricks

Numerical determination of shear stress relaxation modulus of polymer glasses 43

I. Kriuchevskyi, J. P. Wittmer, O. Benzerara, H. Meyer and J. Baschnagel

Published online: 11 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11535-3

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Regular Article

Perils of ad hoc approximations for the activity function of chemically powered colloids 42

M. N. Popescu, W. E. Uspal, M. Tasinkevych and S. Dietrich

Published online: 11 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11529-1

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Regular Article

Chaperone-driven polymer translocation through nanopore: Spatial distribution and binding energy 41

Rouhollah Haji Abdolvahab

Published online: 10 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11528-2

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Regular Article

Spontaneous imbibition in parallel layers of packed beads 39

S. Ashraf, G. Visavale, S. S. Bahga and J. Phirani

Published online: 05 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11530-8

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Regular Article

Effects of photoinitiator on electro-optical properties of polymerization-induced phase separation blue-phase liquid crystals 37

Emine Kemiklioglu and Liang-Chy Chien

Published online: 03 April 2017

DOI: 10.1140/epje/i2017-11524-6

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