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Active Materials: Biological Benchmarks and Transport Limitations

Soft Condensed Matter 2019-03-25 v1 Biological Physics

Abstract

These lecture notes were prepared for the 2018 Summer School on `Active Matter and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics' at l'\'{E}cole de Physique des Houches. They survey metabolic activity across a wide range of living organisms, and consider size limitations due to the transport of fuel, waste, and heat for active materials at biomimetic levels of activity.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1903.09584,
  title  = {Active Materials: Biological Benchmarks and Transport Limitations},
  author = {Eric R. Dufresne},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1903.09584},
  year   = {2019}
}

Comments

These notes will be published in a volume `Active Matter and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics' by Oxford University Press

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