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The 2024 Motile Active Matter Roadmap
Gerhard Gompper, Howard A. Stone, Christina Kurzthaler +29
Activity and autonomous motion are fundamental aspects of many living and engineering systems. Here, the scale of biological agents covers a wide range, from nanomotors, cytoskelet…
Topological packing statistics distinguish living and non-living matter
Dominic J. Skinner, Hannah Jeckel, Adam C. Martin +2
How much structural information is needed to distinguish living from non-living systems? Here, we show that the statistical properties of Delaunay tessellations suffice to differen…
Stability of dancing Volvox
Takuji Ishikawa, T. J. Pedley, K. Drescher +1
Biflagellate algal cells of the genus Volvox form spherical colonies that propel themselves, vertically upwards in still fluid, by the coordinated beating of thousands of flagella,…
Topological metric detects hidden order in disordered media
Dominic J. Skinner, Boya Song, Hannah Jeckel +3
Recent advances in microscopy techniques make it possible to study the growth, dynamics, and response of complex biophysical systems at single-cell resolution, from bacterial commu…
Cell adhesion and fluid flow jointly initiate genotype spatial distribution in biofilms
Ricardo Martinez-Garcia, Carey D. Nadell, Raimo Hartmann +2
Biofilms are microbial collectives that occupy a diverse array of surfaces. The function and evolution of biofilms are strongly influenced by the spatial arrangement of different s…
Fluid dynamics of bacterial turbulence
Jörn Dunkel, Sebastian Heidenreich, Knut Drescher +3
Self-sustained turbulent structures have been observed in a wide range of living fluids, yet no quantitative theory exists to explain their properties. We report experiments on act…