A review of active matter reviews

Abstract

In the past years, the amount of research on active matter has grown extremely rapidly, a fact that is reflected in particular by the existence of more than 600 review articles on this topic. Moreover, the field has become very diverse, ranging from theoretical studies of the statistical mechanics of active particles to applied work on medical applications of microrobots and from biological systems to artificial swimmers. This makes it very difficult to get an overview over the field as a whole. Here, we provide such an overview in the form of a metareview article that surveys the existing review articles on active matter. Thereby, this article provides an introduction to the various subdisciplines of active matter science and constitutes a useful starting point for finding literature about a specific topic.

28 pages, 2 figures, 646 references

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• Statistical physics of social dynamics
• Stochastic thermodynamics, fluctuation theorems, and molecular machines
• Traffic and Related Self-Driven Many-Particle Systems
• Active Particles in Complex and Crowded Environments
• Collective motion
• The hydrodynamics of swimming microorganisms
• The Mechanics and Statistics of Active Matter
• Non-Hermitian Physics
• Motility-Induced Phase Separation
• Physics of Microswimmers - Single Particle Motion and Collective Behavior
• Active Brownian Particles. From Individual to Collective Stochastic Dynamics
• Colloquium: Criticality and dynamical scaling in living systems
• Bacterial hydrodynamics
• The 2019 Motile Active Matter Roadmap
• Diffusive transport without detailed balance in motile bacteria: Does microbiology need statistical physics?
• Cascades and transitions in turbulent flows
• Physical Models of Collective Cell Migration
• Physics of adherent cells
• Topological active matter
• Active matter
• Computational models for active matter
• Green Algae as Model Organisms for Biological Fluid Dynamics
• Physics of Active Emulsions
• Active Turbulence
• Broken detailed balance and non-equilibrium dynamics in living systems
• Tuned, driven, and active soft matter
• Self-Propelled Rods: Insights and Perspectives for Active Matter
• Nonequilibrium Physics in Biology
• Assembly and Phase Transitions within Colloidal Crystals
• Inertial effects of self-propelled particles: from active Brownian to active Langevin motion
• Classical dynamical density functional theory: from fundamentals to applications
• 'Fuelled' motion: phoretic motility and collective behaviour of active colloids
• Odd Viscosity and Odd Elasticity
• Biopolymers: life's mechanical scaffolds
• The Physics of the Vicsek Model
• Self-propulsion of chemically-active droplets
• Temperature in and out of equilibrium: a review of concepts, tools and attempts
• Emergent oscillations assist obstacle negotiation during ant cooperative transport
• The physics of active polymers and filaments
• Minimal model of active colloids highlights the role of mechanical interactions in controlling the emergent behavior of active matter
• Active colloidal suspensions: Clustering and phase behavior
• Theories of Binary Fluid Mixtures: From Phase-Separation Kinetics to Active Emulsions
• An active approach to colloidal self-assembly
• Perspective: Nonequilibrium glassy dynamics in dense systems of active particles
• Bacterial growth: a statistical physicist's guide
• Irreversibility and biased ensembles in active matter: Insights from stochastic thermodynamics
• Time-(ir)reversibility in active matter: from micro to macro
• Active colloids in complex fluids
• Frenesy: time-symmetric dynamical activity in nonequilibria
• Active colloids in liquid crystals
• Learning without neurons in physical systems
• Bridging from single to collective cell migration: A review of models and links to experiments
• Colloidal Hard Spheres: Triumphs, Challenges and Mysteries
• Active turbulence in active nematics
• Chemistry in Motion: Tiny Synthetic Motors
• Theoretical Perspectives on Biological Machines
• Active glasses
• Coarse-Grained Modelling Out of Equilibrium
• The Physics of Biofilms -- An Introduction
• Active Brownian motion in a narrow channel
• Lattice Boltzmann Methods and Active Fluids
• Enhanced diffusion and chemotaxis at the nanoscale
• Ice Rule and Emergent Frustration in Particle Ice and Beyond
• Realizing the physics of motile cilia synchronization with driven colloids
• Power functional theory for many-body dynamics
• Leveraging Collective Effects in Externally Driven Colloidal Suspensions: Experiments and Simulations
• Phase transitions in swarming systems: A recent debate
• We the Droplets: A Constitutional Approach to Active and Self-Propelled Emulsions
• Drying of Bio-colloidal Sessile Droplets: Advances, Applications, and Perspectives
• Self-Aligning Polar Active Matter
• Hot Microswimmers
• Swimming in Complex Fluids
• Lagging Heat Models in Thermodynamics and Bioheat Transfer: a Critical Review
• A review of shaped colloidal particles in fluids: Anisotropy and chirality
• Collective forces in scalar active matter
• The Physics of Traffic and Regional Development
• Entropy production in exactly solvable systems
• Critical Casimir Effect: Exact Results
• A brief introduction to the model microswimmer {\it Chlamydomonas reinhardtii}
• Light, Matter, Action: Shining light on active matter
• Biological Modelling with Nonlocal Advection Diffusion Equations
• Magnetocapillary self-assemblies: locomotion and micromanipulation along a liquid interface
• Hydrodynamic synchronization of flagellar oscillators
• The 2024 Motile Active Matter Roadmap
• Active Brownian Rods
• Differently Shaped Hard Body Colloids in Confinement: From passive to active particles
• Photo-bioconvection: towards light-control of flows in active suspensions
• Perspective: How to overcome dynamical density functional theory
• Stochastic Hydrodynamics of Complex Fluids: Discretisation and Entropy Production
• Optimal active particle navigation meets machine learning
• Reconfiguration, swelling and tagged monomer dynamics of a single polymer chain in Gaussian and non-Gaussian active baths
• Jeffery's orbits and microswimmers in flows: A theoretical review
• Complex fluids in the animal kingdom
• Microbes in porous environments: From active interactions to emergent feedback
• Inclusions, Boundaries and Disorder in Scalar Active Matter
• Microbial Active Matter: A Topological Framework
• Lattice Boltzmann simulation of deformable fluid-filled bodies: progress and perspectives
• Designing, Synthesizing and Modeling Active Fluids
• A brief review of hybrid skin-topological effect
• Perspective: New directions in dynamical density functional theory
• Non-equilibrium dynamic hyperuniform states
• Liquid-crystal enabled electrophoresis: Scenarios for driving and reconfigurable assembling of colloids
• Simulation of microswimmer hydrodynamics with multiparticle collision dynamics
• Spatial population genetics with fluid flow
• Transfer entropy dependent on distance among agents in quantifying leader-follower relationships
• How crosslink numbers shape the large-scale physics of cytoskeletal materials
• The Many Faces of Fluctuation-Dissipation Relations Out of Equilibrium
• Dynamics of Deformable Active Particles under External Flow Field
• Contour models of cellular adhesion
• Stationary shapes of deformable particles moving at low Reynolds numbers
• Collective Motion in Active Materials: Model Experiments
• Motility and self propulsion of active droplets
• Phototactic cyanobacteria as an active matter system

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• Sociohydrodynamics: data-driven modelling of social behavior
• Propelling Ferrimagnetic Domain Walls by Dynamical Frustration
• Coupling an elastic string to an active bath: the emergence of inverse damping
• First-Passage-Time Asymmetry for Biased Run-and-Tumble Processes
• Transverse Self-Propulsion Enhances the Aggregation of Active Dumbbells
• Dynamics of Aligning Active Matter: Mapping to a Schrödinger Equation and Exact Diagonalization
• What is active wetting?
• Active Matter as a framework for living systems-inspired Robophysics
• Conservation laws and slow dynamics determine the universality class of interfaces in active matter
• Stability of discrete-symmetry flocks: sandwich state, traveling domains and motility-induced pinning
• Bubble formation in active binary mixture model
• Effective Energy, Interactions And Out Of Equilibrium Nature Of Scalar Active Matter
• Phase separation of chemokinetic active particles
• Absence of $\mathrm{O}(2)$ symmetry in the Vicsek model
• Active Cahn-Hilliard theory for nonequilibrium phase separation: quantitative macroscopic predictions and a microscopic derivation
• From Active to Odd to Smart Matter
• A Rayleigh criterion for mechanical instability: inducing activity by chemo-mechanical coupling
• Dissipative Generation of Currents by Nonreciprocal Local and Global Environments
• A facilitation-induced fluidization transition in supercooled water triggered by a few active molecules
• Work to insert a particle into an active fluid