Collection
Active Matter
From computational models of flocking birds to experimental studies of self-organziation in actin networks and the jamming transition in zebrafish embryos, problems of active matter have captivated and inspired biological physicists for the past three decades. Such systems are particularly fascinating because they exist out of equilibrium, and therefore exhibit a wide range of behaviors that are fascinating from the physicist’s perspective as well as biologically relevant. The Journal of Biological Physics brings together a wide range of experts in the field to review how the field has developed, highlight some of the newest cutting-edge results, and explore the directions in which the field is likely to grow over the coming decades. In a new Topical Collection on Active Matter, we invite Review and Perspective articles as well as Original Research articles in this critically important area at the interface between physics and biology.
Editors
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Sonya Bahar
University of Missouri, St. Louis, USA
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Ali Naji
Institute for Research in Fundamental Sciences (IPM), Tehran, Iran
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Tapio Ala-Nissilä
Aalto University, Finland
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Marco Mazza
Loughborough University, UK
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Amin Doostmohammadi
University of Copenhagen, Denmark
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Ming Guo
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA, USA
