Colloidal Active Matter: Concepts, Experimental Realizations, and Models Sagus Mestre Francesc

What do bird flocks, bacterial swarms, cell tissues, and cytoskeletal fluids have in common? This book explores how scientists in various disciplines, from physics to biology, have collated a solid corpus of experimental designs and theories during the last two decades to decipher active systems.The book addresses, from a multidisciplinary viewpoint, the field of active matter at a colloidal scale. They are all examples of active matter.

A large variety of subjects, from microswimmers or driven colloids to self-organized active fluids, are analysed within a unified perspective. Concepts, experiments, and theoretical models are put side by side to fully illuminate the subtilities of active systems. Generic collective effects of self-propelled or driven colloids, such as motility-induced flocking, and new paradigms, such as the celebrated concept of active nematics in