Active Matter Within and Around Us

From Self-Propelled Particles to Flocks and Living Forms
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-030-68423-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 227 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 371 g

Reihe: The Frontiers Collection

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.

Zielgruppe

Lower undergraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pismen, Len

Fachgebiete

• Naturwissenschaften Physik Thermodynamik Festkörperphysik, Kondensierte Materie
• Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften: Forschung und Information Kybernetik, Systemtheorie, Komplexe Systeme
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Tierkunde / Zoologie
• Naturwissenschaften Physik Physik Allgemein Theoretische Physik, Mathematische Physik, Computerphysik
• Naturwissenschaften Biowissenschaften Zellbiologie
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Mathematik Interdisziplinär Systemtheorie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- Polar Flocks.- Active Nematics.- Active Colloids.- Motion of Microorganisms.- Eukaryotic Cells.- Active Gels.- Live Tissues.- Morphogenesis.- References.

Über Autor(innen)

Len Pismen is Emeritus Professor of Fluid Mechanics at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He  has worked in various areas of applied physics and published over 200 papers. His earlier books include Vortices in Nonlinear Fields (1999), Patterns and Interfaces in Dissipative Dynamics (2006), and general audience books The Swings of Science (2018) and Morphogenesis Deconstructed (2020). The latter, most recent, book also appears in Springer's Frontiers Collection.