A particle-resolved rheological study of chirality transfer and odd transport (opens in new tab)

Chirality, or the breaking of mirror symmetry, appears across all scales in nature, from molecular conformations to the dynamics of bacterial collectives. Environments composed of such symmetry-breaking constituents can give rise to emergent physical phenomena, particularly in the transport and response of embedded tracers. Yet it remains unclear how chiral environments influence such tracers and through which microscopic mechanisms anomalous re...