Active fluids exhibit spontaneous flows with complex spatiotemporal structure, which have
been observed in bacterial suspensions, sperm cells, cytoskeletal suspensions, self …

In active matter systems, individual constituents convert energy into non-conservative forces
or motion at the microscale, leading to morphological features and transport properties that …

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 …

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 …

Various types of structures self-organised by animals exist in nature, such as bird flocks and
insect swarms, which stem from the local communications of vast numbers of limited …

Cultured stem cells have become a standard platform not only for regenerative medicine
and developmental biology but also for biophysical studies. Yet, the characterization of …

Complex coacervation driven liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) of biopolymers has
been attracting attention as a novel phase in living cells. Studies of LLPS in this context are …

Bacteria commonly live attached to surfaces in dense collectives containing billions of cells.
While it is known that motility allows these groups to expand en masse into new territory …

Active matter physics is about systems in which energy is dissipated at some local level to
produce work. This is a generic situation, particularly in the living world but not only. What is …