Active Materials: Biological Benchmarks and Transport Limitations
arXiv:1903.09584
Abstract
These lecture notes were prepared for the 2018 Summer School on `Active Matter and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics' at l'École de Physique des Houches. They survey metabolic activity across a wide range of living organisms, and consider size limitations due to the transport of fuel, waste, and heat for active materials at biomimetic levels of activity.
These notes will be published in a volume `Active Matter and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics' by Oxford University Press