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Active matter in space [PDF]

npj Microgravity, 2022
In the last 20 years, active matter has been a highly dynamic field of research, bridging fundamental aspects of non-equilibrium thermodynamics with applications to biology, robotics, and nano-medicine.
Giorgio Volpe, Clemens Bechinger, Frank Cichos, Ramin Golestanian, Hartmut Löwen, Matthias Sperl, Giovanni Volpe   +6 more
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Light, Matter, Action: Shining Light on Active Matter. [PDF]

ACS Photonics, 2023
Light carries energy and momentum. It can therefore alter the motion of objects on the atomic to astronomical scales. Being widely available, readily controllable, and broadly biocompatible, light is also an ideal tool to propel microscopic particles ...
Rey M, Volpe G, Volpe G.
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Proliferating active matter. [PDF]

Nat Rev Phys, 2023
The fascinating patterns of collective motion created by autonomously driven particles have fuelled active-matter research for over two decades. So far, theoretical active-matter research has often focused on systems with a fixed number of particles ...
Hallatschek O, Datta SS, Drescher K, Dunkel J, Elgeti J, Waclaw B, Wingreen NS.   +6 more
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Nano/Micromotors in Active Matter [PDF]

Micromachines, 2022
Nano/micromotors (NMMs) are tiny objects capable of converting energy into mechanical motion. Recently, a wealth of active matter including synthetic colloids, cytoskeletons, bacteria, and cells have been used to construct NMMs. The self-sustained motion
Chenglin Lv, Yuguang Yang, Bo Li
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Shaping active matter from crystalline solids to active turbulence. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2023
Active matter drives its constituent agents to move autonomously by harnessing free energy, leading to diverse emergent states with relevance to both biological processes and inanimate functionalities.
Yang Q, Jiang M, Picano F, Zhu L.
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The 2025 motile active matter roadmap. [PDF]

J Phys Condens Matter
Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental aspects of many living and engineering systems. Here, the scale of biological agents covers a wide range, from nanomotors, cytoskeleton, and cells, to insects, fish, birds, and people. Inspired by biological
Gompper G, Stone HA, Kurzthaler C, Saintillan D, Peruani F, Fedosov DA, Auth T, Cottin-Bizonne C, Ybert C, Clément E, Darnige T, Lindner A, Goldstein RE, Liebchen B, Binysh J, Souslov A, Isa L, di Leonardo R, Frangipane G, Gu H, Nelson BJ, Brauns F, Marchetti MC, Cichos F, Heuthe VL, Bechinger C, Korman A, Feinerman O, Cavagna A, Giardina I, Jeckel H, Drescher K.   +31 more
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Metareview: a survey of active matter reviews. [PDF]

Eur Phys J E Soft Matter
In the past years, the amount of research on active matter has grown extremely rapidly, a fact that is reflected in particular by the existence of more than 1000 reviews on this topic. Moreover, the field has become very diverse, ranging from theoretical
Te Vrugt M, Wittkowski R.
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Worm blobs as entangled living polymers: from topological active matter to flexible soft robot collectives. [PDF]

Soft Matter, 2023
Recently, the study of long, slender living worms has gained attention due to their unique ability to form highly entangled physical structures, exhibiting emergent behaviors.
Deblais A, Prathyusha KR, Sinaasappel R, Tuazon H, Tiwari I, Patil VP, Bhamla MS.   +6 more
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Multi-scale organization in communicating active matter. [PDF]

Nat Commun, 2022
The emergence of collective motion among interacting, self-propelled agents is a central paradigm in non-equilibrium physics. Examples of such active matter range from swimming bacteria and cytoskeletal motility assays to synthetic self-propelled ...
Ziepke A, Maryshev I, Aranson IS, Frey E.   +3 more
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An Account on BiVO₄ as Photocatalytic Active Matter. [PDF]

Acc Mater Res
Conspectus Photocatalytic materials are gaining popularity and research investment for developing light-driven micromotors. While most of the early work used highly stable TiO2 as a material to construct micromotors, mostly in combination with noble ...
Heckel S, Wittmann M, Reid M, Villa K, Simmchen J.   +4 more
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