Active matter could revolutionize everything from clothing to robots, but what is it?
“Normal passive matter like a book lying on your table won’t open the pages by itself and turn the pages. It’s passive and sits there unless an external force acts on it,” says Seth Fraden, a physicist from the Materials Research ¾ÅÐãÖ±²¥ and Engineering Center at Brandeis University.
“With active matter, you can take the internal energy and have that be converted into mechanical energy that can lead to self-propulsion,” he says.
In this episode of , Fraden explains what active matter is and how it can be used to create machines and materials that behave like living organisms.
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