Active Materials: Biological Benchmarks and Transport Limitations

Abstract

These lecture notes were prepared for the 2018 Summer School on `Active Matter and Non-equilibrium Statistical Physics' at l'\'Ecole 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.

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