The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

Abstract

Abstract 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 aspects of propulsion mechanisms, and on motility-induced emergent collective behavior of a larger number of identical agents. The scale of agents ranges from nanomotors and microswimmers, to cells, fish, birds, and people. Inspired by biological microswimmers, various designs of autonomous synthetic nano- and micromachines have been proposed. Such machines provide the basis for multifunctional, highly responsive, intelligent (artificial) active materials, which exhibit emergent behavior and the ability to perform tasks in response to external stimuli. A major challenge for understanding and designing active matter is their inherent nonequilibrium nature due to persistent energy consumption, which invalidates equilibrium concepts such as free energy, detailed balance, and time-reversal symmetry. Unraveling, predicting, and controlling the behavior of active matter is a truly interdisciplinary endeavor at the interface of biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, mathematics, and physics. The vast complexity of phenomena and mechanisms involved in the self-organization and dynamics of motile active matter comprises a major challenge. Hence, to advance, and eventually reach a comprehensive understanding, this important research area requires a concerted, synergetic approach of the various disciplines. The 2020 motile active matter roadmap of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter addresses the current state of the art of the field and provides guidance for both students as well as established scientists in their efforts to advance this fascinating area.

Autoren

Gerhard Gompper
Roland G Winkler
Thomas Speck
Alexandre Solon
Cesare Nardini
Fernando Peruani
Hartmut Löwen
Ramin Golestanian
U Benjamin Kaupp
Luis Alvarez
Thomas Kiørboe
Eric Lauga
Wilson CK Poon
Antonio DeSimone
Santiago Muiños-Landin
Alexander Fischer
Nicola A Söker
Frank Cichos
Raymond Kapral
Pierre Gaspard
Marisol Ripoll
Francesc Sagues
Amin Doostmohammadi
Julia M Yeomans
Igor S Aranson
Clemens Bechinger
Holger Stark
Charlotte K Hemelrijk
François J Nedelec
Trinish Sarkar
Thibault Aryaksama
Mathilde Lacroix
Guillaume Duclos
Victor Yashunsky
Pascal Silberzan
Marino Arroyo
Sohan Kale

DOI

10.1088/1361-648x/ab6348

eISSN

1361-648X

ISSN

0953-8984

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

19

Zeitschrift

Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter

Online publication date

2020

Paginierung

193001 - 193001

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2020

Status

Published

Herausgeber

IOP Publishing

Herausgeber URL

http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1361-648x/ab6348

Datum der Datenerfassung

2021

Titel

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

32

Datenquelle: Crossref

Abstract

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 aspects of propulsion mechanisms, and on motility-induced emergent collective behavior of a larger number of identical agents. The scale of agents ranges from nanomotors and microswimmers, to cells, fish, birds, and people. Inspired by biological microswimmers, various designs of autonomous synthetic nano- and micromachines have been proposed. Such machines provide the basis for multifunctional, highly responsive, intelligent (artificial) active materials, which exhibit emergent behavior and the ability to perform tasks in response to external stimuli. A major challenge for understanding and designing active matter is their inherent nonequilibrium nature due to persistent energy consumption, which invalidates equilibrium concepts such as free energy, detailed balance, and time-reversal symmetry. Unraveling, predicting, and controlling the behavior of active matter is a truly interdisciplinary endeavor at the interface of biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, mathematics, and physics. The vast complexity of phenomena and mechanisms involved in the self-organization and dynamics of motile active matter comprises a major challenge. Hence, to advance, and eventually reach a comprehensive understanding, this important research area requires a concerted, synergetic approach of the various disciplines. The 2020 motile active matter roadmap of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter addresses the current state of the art of the field and provides guidance for both students as well as established scientists in their efforts to advance this fascinating area.

Addresses

Theoretical Soft Matter and Biophysics, Institute of Complex Systems and Institute for Advanced Simulation, Forschungszentrum Jülich, 52425 Jülich, Germany.

Autoren

Gerhard Gompper
Roland G Winkler
Thomas Speck
Alexandre Solon
Cesare Nardini
Fernando Peruani
Hartmut Löwen
Ramin Golestanian
U Benjamin Kaupp
Luis Alvarez
Thomas Kiørboe
Eric Lauga
Wilson CK Poon
Antonio DeSimone
Santiago Muiños-Landin
Alexander Fischer
Nicola A Söker
Frank Cichos
Raymond Kapral
Pierre Gaspard
Marisol Ripoll
Francesc Sagues
Amin Doostmohammadi
Julia M Yeomans
Igor S Aranson
Clemens Bechinger
Holger Stark
Charlotte K Hemelrijk
François J Nedelec
Trinish Sarkar
Thibault Aryaksama
Mathilde Lacroix
Guillaume Duclos
Victor Yashunsky
Pascal Silberzan
Marino Arroyo
Sohan Kale

DOI

10.1088/1361-648x/ab6348

eISSN

1361-648X

Externe Identifier

PubMed Identifier: 32058979

Funding acknowledgements

Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft: (Projects CI 33/16-1 and CI 33/16-2) within the Priority Program 1726 ‘Microswimmers’
Villum Fonden: 00007178

Open access

false

ISSN

0953-8984

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

19

Zeitschrift

Journal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal

Sprache

eng

Medium

Print

Paginierung

193001

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2020

Status

Published

Publisher licence

CC BY

Datum der Datenerfassung

2020

Titel

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap.

Sub types

Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Journal Article

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

32

Datenquelle: Europe PubMed Central

Abstract

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 aspects of propulsion mechanisms, and on motility-induced emergent collective behavior of a larger number of identical agents. The scale of agents ranges from nanomotors and microswimmers, to cells, fish, birds, and people. Inspired by biological microswimmers, various designs of autonomous synthetic nano- and micromachines have been proposed. Such machines provide the basis for multifunctional, highly responsive, intelligent (artificial) active materials, which exhibit emergent behavior and the ability to perform tasks in response to external stimuli. A major challenge for understanding and designing active matter is their inherent nonequilibrium nature due to persistent energy consumption, which invalidates equilibrium concepts such as free energy, detailed balance, and time-reversal symmetry. Unraveling, predicting, and controlling the behavior of active matter is a truly interdisciplinary endeavor at the interface of biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, mathematics, and physics. The vast complexity of phenomena and mechanisms involved in the self-organization and dynamics of motile active matter comprises a major challenge. Hence, to advance, and eventually reach a comprehensive understanding, this important research area requires a concerted, synergetic approach of the various disciplines. The 2020 motile active matter roadmap of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter addresses the current state of the art of the field and provides guidance for both students as well as established scientists in their efforts to advance this fascinating area.

Autoren

Gerhard Gompper
Roland G Winkler
Thomas Speck
Alexandre Solon
Cesare Nardini
Fernando Peruani
Hartmut Löwen
Ramin Golestanian
U Benjamin Kaupp
Luis Alvarez
Thomas Kiørboe
Eric Lauga
Wilson CK Poon
Antonio DeSimone
Santiago Muiños-Landin
Alexander Fischer
Nicola A Söker
Frank Cichos
Raymond Kapral
Pierre Gaspard
Marisol Ripoll
Francesc Sagues
Amin Doostmohammadi
Julia M Yeomans
Igor S Aranson
Clemens Bechinger
Holger Stark
Charlotte K Hemelrijk
François J Nedelec
Trinish Sarkar
Thibault Aryaksama
Mathilde Lacroix
Guillaume Duclos
Victor Yashunsky
Pascal Silberzan
Marino Arroyo
Sohan Kale

Autoren-URL

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32058979

DOI

10.1088/1361-648X/ab6348

eISSN

1361-648X

Ausgabe der Veröffentlichung

19

Zeitschrift

J Phys Condens Matter

Sprache

eng

Country

England

Paginierung

193001

Datum der Veröffentlichung

2020

Status

Published

Datum, an dem der Datensatz öffentlich gemacht wurde

2021

Titel

The 2020 motile active matter roadmap.

Sub types

Journal Article
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

Ausgabe der Zeitschrift

32

Datenquelle: PubMed

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