"Active matter is a newly emerging field focused on physical materials that can assemble themselves, transform autonomously, and sense, react, or compute based on internal and external information"--page 11.
Sitzen -- Einrichten -- Transportieren -- Experimentieren.
Sitzen -- Einrichten -- Transportieren -- Experimentieren.
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