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Active Matter Within and Around Us - From Self-Propelled Particles to Flocks and Living Forms (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
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Active Matter Within and Around Us - From Self-Propelled Particles to Flocks and Living Forms (Paperback, 1st ed. 2021)
Series: The Frontiers Collection
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This book presents a comprehensive review of various aspects of the
novel and rapidly developing field of active matter, which
encompasses a wide variety of self-organized self-driven
energy-consuming media or agents. Most naturally occurring examples
are of biological origin, spanning all scales from intracellular
structures to swimming and crawling cells and microorganisms, to
living tissues, bacterial colonies and flocks of birds. But the
field also encompasses artificial systems, from colloids to soft
robots. Intrinsically out of equilibrium and free of constraints of
time-reversal symmetry, such systems display a range of surprising
and unusual behaviors. In this book, the author emphasizes
connections between fluid-mechanical, material, biological and
technological aspects of active matter. He employs a minimum of
mathematical tools, ensuring that the presentation is accessible to
a wider scientific community. Richly illustrated, it gives the
reader a clear picture of this fascinating field, its diverse
phenomena and its open questions.
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