Collective Behaviors of Magnetic Active Matter: Recent Progress toward Reconfigurable, Adaptive, and Multifunctional Swarming Micro/Nanorobots

• Published in: Accounts of chemical research Vol. 55; no. 1; pp. 98 - 109
• Main Authors: Jin, Dongdong, Zhang, Li
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States American Chemical Society 04.01.2022

Conspectus Active matter refers to the nonequilibrium system composed of interacting units that continually dissipate energy at a single-unit level and transduce it into mechanical force or motion. Such systems are ubiquitous in nature and span most of the biological scales, ranging from cytoskeleto...