Active matter extracts energy from its surroundings at the single particle level and transforms
it into mechanical work. Examples include cytoskeleton biopolymers and bacterial …

Abstract The Materials Genome Initiative (MGI) advanced a new paradigm for materials
discovery and design, namely that the pace of new materials deployment could be …

PIVlab is a free toolbox and app for MATLAB®. It is used to perform Particle Image
Velocimetry (PIV) with image data: A light sheet illuminates particles that are suspended in a …

The remarkable processes that characterize living organisms, such as motility, self-healing
and reproduction, are fuelled by a continuous injection of energy at the microscale. The field …

Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental in living and engineering systems. This
has stimulated the new field of'active matter'in recent years, which focuses on the physical …

The field of supramolecular chemistry and molecular self-assembly has entered a new
phase in which the use of chemical reactions to create out-of-equilibrium molecular …

Active materials are capable of converting free energy into mechanical work to produce
autonomous motion, and exhibit striking collective dynamics that biology relies on for …

Self-assembly is the autonomous organization of components into patterns or structures: an
essential ingredient of biology and a desired route to complex organization. At equilibrium …

Active matter consists of units that generate mechanical work by consuming energy.
Examples include living systems (such as assemblies of bacteria,,–and biological tissues,) …

These lecture notes are designed to provide a brief introduction into the phenomenology of
active matter and to present some of the analytical tools used to rationalize the emergent …