Reference : Steering self-organisation through confinement
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http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54373
Steering self-organisation through confinement
English
Araújo, Nuno A. M. []
Janssen, Liesbeth []
Marin, Alvaro []
Volpe, Giorgio []
Sengupta, Anupam mailto [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Science, Technology and Medicine (FSTM) > Department of Physics and Materials Science (DPHYMS) >]
6-Feb-2023
Soft Matter
Royal Society of Chemistry
Yes
International
1744-683X
1744-6848
Cambridge
United Kingdom
[en] self-organization ; confinement ; active matter ; feedback ; multi-scale
[en] Self-organisation is the spontaneous emergence of spatio-temporal structures and patterns from the interaction of smaller individual units. Examples are found across many scales in very different systems and scientific disciplines, from physics, materials science and robotics to biology, geophysics and astronomy. Recent research has highlighted how self-organisation can be both mediated and controlled by confinement. Confinement is an action over a system that limits its units’ translational and rotational degrees of freedom, thus also influencing the system’s phase space probability density; it can function as either a catalyst or inhibitor of self-organisation. Confinement can then become a means to actively steer the emergence or suppression of collective phenomena in space and time. Here, to provide a common framework and perspective for future research, we examine the role of confinement in the self-organisation of soft-matter systems and identify overarching scientific challenges that need to be addressed to harness its full scientific and technological potential in soft matter and related fields. By drawing analogies with other disciplines, this framework will accelerate a common deeper understanding of self-organisation and trigger the development of innovative strategies to steer it using confinement, with impact on, e.g., the design of smarter materials, tissue engineering for biomedicine and in guiding active matter.
Fonds National de la Recherche - FnR
Researchers ; Professionals ; Students ; General public
http://hdl.handle.net/10993/54373
10.1039/D2SM01562E
https://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2023/SM/D2SM01562E
CC BY 3.0
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