溶解過程における液晶滴の自走運動と内部配向の変化

抄録

Objects with self-propelling mechanisms or similar properties to them are called active matter. In the self-propulsion of liquid crystalline(LC) droplets, which is an example of the active matter, various motions are induced by the interaction between the director and the flow fields in the droplets. In this study, we observed the LC droplet bound near the air interface of a liquid solvent. As a result, we observed that the director in LC droplet showed 3 different states during the dissolution process, and that the droplet motions in these states are markedly different from each other.