14 七月 2017
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by yx
- 20170714
Active-Matter Thermodynamics Under Pressure
... Is defining the equation of state for active matter merely of
academic interest? For now, we don’t know. It could become
influential if researchers are able to produce practically use-
ful active materials or to extend the elegant experiments and
theories that describe self-propelled disks and colloids to na-
ture’s most abundant type of active matter: cells. Biological
systems are typically associated with different symmetries
and conservation laws than granular and colloidal systems.
Defining an equation of state for cell tissue would, without a
doubt, be a breakthrough. But for the theoretical, experimen-
tal, and simulation tools available today, such a description
is still out of reach.
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