ReviewJournal of physics. Condensed matter : an Institute of Physics journal2025
The 2025 motile active matter roadmap.
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10 citing papers in PubMed.
- Cell division sets a universal flow geometry in cell layers.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2026Article
- Directional motion of a self-steering active intruder in a dense crowd of cognitive active agents.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Light-induced assembly and repeatable actuation in CaNature communications · 2026Article
- Extensile Active Hydrogels Driven by Living FtsZ Polymers.Small (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany) · 2026Article
- Mixing of a binary passive particle system using smart active particles.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Polymer Systems with Correlated Activity: Stars Versus Linear Chains.Molecules (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Morphology, Polarization Patterns, Compression, and Entropy Production in Phase-Separating Active Dumbbell Systems.Entropy (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Run-and-tumble dynamics ofJournal of the Royal Society, Interface · 2025Article
- Modelling motility of Trypanosoma brucei.PLoS computational biology · 2025Article
- Metareview: a survey of active matter reviews.The European physical journal. E, Soft matter · 2025Review
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Abstract
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, cytoskeleton, and cells, to insects, fish, birds, and people. Inspired by biological active systems, various types of autonomous synthetic nano- and micromachines have been designed, which provide the basis for multifunctional, highly responsive, intelligent active materials. A major challenge for understanding and designing active matter is their inherent non-equilibrium nature due to persistent energy consumption, which invalidates equilibrium concepts such as free energy, detailed balance, and time-reversal symmetry. Furthermore, interactions in ensembles of active agents are often non-additive and non-reciprocal. An important aspect of biological agents is their ability to sense the environment, process this information, and adjust their motion accordingly. It is an important goal for the engineering of micro-robotic systems to achieve similar functionality. Many fundamental properties of motile active matter are by now reasonably well understood and under control. Thus, the ground is now prepared for the study of physical aspects and mechanisms of motion in complex environments, the behavior of systems with new physical features like chirality, the development of novel micromachines and microbots, the emergent collective behavior and swarming of intelligent self-propelled particles, and particular features of microbial systems. The vast complexity of phenomena and mechanisms involved in the self-organization and dynamics of motile active matter poses major challenges, which can only be addressed by a truly interdisciplinary effort involving scientists from biology, chemistry, ecology, engineering, mathematics, and physics. The 2025 motile active matter roadmap of Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter reviews the current state of the art of the field and provides guidance for further progress in this fascinating research area.
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