@article{ISI:000264380200072,
 abstract = {We formulate the thin-film hydrodynamics of a suspension of polar
self-driven particles and show that it is prone to several instabilities
through the interplay of activity, polarity, and the existence of a free
surface. Our approach extends, to self-propelling systems, the work of
Ben Amar and Cummings [Phys. Fluids 13 1160 (2001)] on thin-film
nematics. Based on our estimates the instabilities should be seen in
bacterial suspensions and the lamellipodium, and are potentially
relevant to the morphology of biofilms. We suggest several experimental
tests of our theory.},
 article-number = {118107},
 author = {Sankararaman, Sumithra and Ramaswamy, Sriram},
 doi = {10.1103/PhysRevLett.102.118107},
 eissn = {1079-7114},
 issn = {0031-9007},
 journal = {PHYSICAL REVIEW LETTERS},
 month = {MAR 20},
 number = {11},
 times-cited = {43},
 title = {Instabilities and Waves in Thin Films of Living Fluids},
 unique-id = {ISI:000264380200072},
 volume = {102},
 year = {2009}
}