Bacterial Wake (VIDEO)

American Institute of Physics

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Enabled by the birefringence of liquid crystal, motion of 24nm thick bacteria flagella now is easily visible using a simple polarizing microscope.

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S. Zhou, A. Sokolov, O. Lavrentovich and I. Aranson

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