Phototactic cyanobacteria as an active matter system
P. Varuni,
Shakti N. Menon,
Gautam I. Menon
Abstract:Flocks of birds, schools of fish, mixtures of motors and cytoskeletal filaments, swimming bacteria and driven granular media are systems of interacting motile units that exhibit collective behaviour. These can all be described as active matter systems, since each individual unit takes energy from an internal energy depot and transduces it into work performed on the environment. We review a model for cyanobacterial phototaxis, emphasising the differences from other models for collective behaviour in active matt… Show more
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