Chiral Lemniscate Formation in Magnetic Field Controlled Topological Fluid Flows

Matt Jellicoe, Zoe Gardner, Amjad E. H. Alotaibi, Kaylee E. Shoemaker, James M. Scott, Shiliang Wang, Badriah M. Alotaibi, Xuan Luo, Clarence Chuah, Christopher T. Gibson, Shan He, Kasturi Vimalanathan, Jason R. Gascooke, Xianjue Chen, Alison Rodger, Han Huang, Scott J. Dalgarno, Elsa Antunes, Gregory A. Weiss, Qin LiJamie S. Quinton, Colin L. Raston

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Abstract

High shear spinning top (ST) typhoon-like fluid flow in a rapidly rotating inclined tube within a vortex fluidic device (VFD) approaches homochirality throughout the liquid with toroids of bundled single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) twisted into stable chiral lemniscates (in the shape of Figure 8s), predominantly as the R-or S-structures, for the tube rotating clockwise (CW) or counterclockwise (CCW). However, this is impacted by the Earth's magnetic field (BE). Theory predicts 1?20 MPa pressure for their formation, with their absolute chirality determined from scanning electron microscopy (SEM) and atomic force microscopy (AFM) images. Thus, the resultant lemniscate structures establish the absolute chirality of the inner and outer components of the ST flow. These chiral flows and lemniscates can be flipped to the opposite chirality by changing the orientation of the tube relative to the inclination angle of BE, by moving the geographical location. Special conditions prevail where the tangential angle of the outer and inner flow of the ST becomes periodically aligned with BE, which respectively dramatically reduce the formation of toroids (and thus lemniscates) and formation of lemniscates from the toroids formed by the double-helical (DH) flow generated by side wall Coriolis forces and Faraday waves.
Original languageEnglish
JournalSmall
Early online date3 Apr 2025
DOIs
Publication statusE-pub ahead of print - 3 Apr 2025

Keywords

  • asymmetric induction
  • chiral fluid flow
  • earth's magnetic field
  • single walled carbon nanotubes
  • thin film microfluidics
  • vortex fluids

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