{"id":171299,"date":"2023-09-04T22:22:55","date_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:22:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/physicists-solve-mysteries-of-microtubule-movers"},"modified":"2023-09-04T22:22:55","modified_gmt":"2023-09-05T03:22:55","slug":"physicists-solve-mysteries-of-microtubule-movers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/09\/physicists-solve-mysteries-of-microtubule-movers","title":{"rendered":"Physicists solve mysteries of microtubule movers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/physicists-solve-mysteries-of-microtubule-movers.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Active matter is any collection of materials or systems composed of individual units that can move on their own, thanks to self-propulsion or autonomous motion. They can be of any size\u2014think clouds of bacteria in a petri dish, or schools of fish.<\/p>\n<p>Roman Grigoriev is mostly interested in the emergent behaviors in active matter systems made up of units on a molecular scale\u2014tiny systems that convert stored energy into directed motion, consuming energy as they move and exert mechanical force.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cActive matter systems have garnered significant attention in physics, biology, and <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/materials+science\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">materials science<\/a> due to their <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/unique+properties\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">unique properties<\/a> and potential applications,\u201d Grigoriev, a professor in the School of Physics at Georgia Tech, explains.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Active matter is any collection of materials or systems composed of individual units that can move on their own, thanks to self-propulsion or autonomous motion. They can be of any size\u2014think clouds of bacteria in a petri dish, or schools of fish. Roman Grigoriev is mostly interested in the emergent behaviors in active matter systems [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,219,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-171299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-physics","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171299","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=171299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171299\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=171299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=171299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=171299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}