Active matter, then and now

Historically, living was divided from dead, inert matter by its autonomous activity. Today, a number of materials not themselves alive are characterized as having inherent activity, and this activity has become the subject of a hot new field of physics, “Active Matter”, or “Soft matter become alive....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Keller, Evelyn F
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Science, Technology and Society
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Springer International Publishing 2016
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/105904
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5116-852X