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active matter: a standalone construct

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Soft matter physics

systems whose individual units consume energy to move or exert forces, producing collective behavior far from equilibrium.

In soft matter physics, active matter refers to systems whose individual units consume energy to move or exert forces, producing collective behavior far from equilibrium. This meaning comes from Marchetti (2013) in Reviews of Modern Physics.[1]

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References

Marchetti, M. C., Joanny, J. F., Ramaswamy, S., Liverpool, T. B., Prost, J., Rao, M., & Simha, R. A. (2013). Hydrodynamics of soft active matter. Reviews of Modern Physics, 85(3), 1143-1189. https://doi.org/10.1103/revmodphys.85.1143

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