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a liquid crystal of elongated units that consume energy and generate stress, producing spontaneous flows and moving topological defects.

In biophysics, active nematic refers to a liquid crystal of elongated units that consume energy and generate stress, producing spontaneous flows and moving topological defects. This meaning comes from Sanchez (2012) in Nature.[1]

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References

Sanchez, T., Chen, D. T. N., DeCamp, S. J., Heymann, M., & Dogic, Z. (2012). Spontaneous motion in hierarchically assembled active matter. Nature, 491(7424), 431-434. https://doi.org/10.1038/nature11591

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