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author Araújo, Nuno A. M.
Janssen, Liesbeth M. C.
Barois, Thomas
Boffetta, Guido
Cohen, Itai
Corbetta, Alessandro
Dauchot, Olivier
Dijkstra, Marjolein
Durham, William M.
Dussutour, Audrey
Garnier, Simon
Gelderblom, Hanneke
Golestanian, Ramin
Isa, Lucio
Koenderink, Gijsje H.
Löwen, Hartmut
Metzler, Ralf
Polin, Marco
Royall, C. Patrick
Šarić, Anđela
Sengupta, Anupam
Sykes, Cécile
Trianni, Vito
Tuval, Idan
Vogel, Nicolas
Yeomans, Julia M.
Zuriguel, Iker
Marin, Alvaro
Volpe, Giorgio
author_facet Araújo, Nuno A. M.
Janssen, Liesbeth M. C.
Barois, Thomas
Boffetta, Guido
Cohen, Itai
Corbetta, Alessandro
Dauchot, Olivier
Dijkstra, Marjolein
Durham, William M.
Dussutour, Audrey
Garnier, Simon
Gelderblom, Hanneke
Golestanian, Ramin
Isa, Lucio
Koenderink, Gijsje H.
Löwen, Hartmut
Metzler, Ralf
Polin, Marco
Royall, C. Patrick
Šarić, Anđela
Sengupta, Anupam
Sykes, Cécile
Trianni, Vito
Tuval, Idan
Vogel, Nicolas
Yeomans, Julia M.
Zuriguel, Iker
Marin, Alvaro
Volpe, Giorgio
contents 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 occurs through interactions with boundaries, and can function as either a catalyst or inhibitor of self-organisation. It 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 for future research, we examine the role of confinement in self-organisation and identify overarching scientific challenges across disciplines that need to be addressed to harness its full scientific and technological potential. This framework will not only accelerate the generation of a common deeper understanding of self-organisation but also trigger the development of innovative strategies to steer it through confinement, with impact, e.g., on the design of smarter materials, tissue engineering for biomedicine and crowd management.
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spellingShingle Steering self-organisation through confinement
Araújo, Nuno A. M.
Janssen, Liesbeth M. C.
Barois, Thomas
Boffetta, Guido
Cohen, Itai
Corbetta, Alessandro
Dauchot, Olivier
Dijkstra, Marjolein
Durham, William M.
Dussutour, Audrey
Garnier, Simon
Gelderblom, Hanneke
Golestanian, Ramin
Isa, Lucio
Koenderink, Gijsje H.
Löwen, Hartmut
Metzler, Ralf
Polin, Marco
Royall, C. Patrick
Šarić, Anđela
Sengupta, Anupam
Sykes, Cécile
Trianni, Vito
Tuval, Idan
Vogel, Nicolas
Yeomans, Julia M.
Zuriguel, Iker
Marin, Alvaro
Volpe, Giorgio
Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
Physics and Society
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 occurs through interactions with boundaries, and can function as either a catalyst or inhibitor of self-organisation. It 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 for future research, we examine the role of confinement in self-organisation and identify overarching scientific challenges across disciplines that need to be addressed to harness its full scientific and technological potential. This framework will not only accelerate the generation of a common deeper understanding of self-organisation but also trigger the development of innovative strategies to steer it through confinement, with impact, e.g., on the design of smarter materials, tissue engineering for biomedicine and crowd management.
title Steering self-organisation through confinement
topic Adaptation and Self-Organizing Systems
Soft Condensed Matter
Biological Physics
Physics and Society
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2204.10059