Bioinspired out-of-equilibrium systems will set the scene for the next generation of molecular
materials with active, adaptive, autonomous, emergent and intelligent behavior. Indeed life …

Droplets abound in nature and technology. In general, they are multicomponent, and, when
out of equilibrium, have gradients in concentration, implying flow and mass transport …

How accurate is the picture of the human mind that has emerged from studies in
neuroscience, psychology, and cognitive science? Anybody with an interest in how minds …

Chemotactic interactions are ubiquitous in nature and can lead to non-reciprocal and
complex emergent behaviour in multibody systems. However, developing synthetic …

Although dynamic self-assembly, DySA, is a relatively new area of research, the past
decade has brought numerous demonstrations of how various types of components–on …

Abstract Systems that are intelligent have the ability to sense their surroundings, analyze,
and respond accordingly. In nature, many biological systems are considered intelligent (eg …

Chemotaxis and autochemotaxis play an important role in many essential biological
processes. We present a self-propelling artificial swimmer system that exhibits chemotaxis …

Motion is an essential process for many living organisms and for artificial robots and
machines. To date, creating self-propelled motion in nano-to-macroscopic-sized objects has …

The use of swarms of nanobots to perform seemingly miraculous tasks is a common trope in
the annals of science fiction. 1 Although several of these remarkable feats are still very much …

Self-propelled droplets are a class of active matter systems composed of one fluid dispersed
in another immiscible fluid. Despite the inherent spherical symmetry in the initial droplet …