Fratzl P. Active Materials 2021 torrent

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What is an active material? This book aims to redefine perceptions of the materials that respond to their environment. Through the theory of the structure and functionality of materials found in nature a scientific approach to active materials is first identified. Further interviews with experts from the natural sciences and humanities then seeks to question and redefine this view of materials to create a new definition of active materials.
Что такое активный материал? Эта книга направлена на то, чтобы пересмотреть восприятие материалов, которые реагируют на окружающую среду. Благодаря теории структуры и функциональности материалов, встречающихся в природе, впервые определяется научный подход к активным материалам. Дальнейшие интервью с экспертами в области естественных и гуманитарных наук направлены на то, чтобы подвергнуть сомнению и переопределить этот взгляд на материалы, чтобы создать новое определение активных материалов.
Introduction
Materials Matter: Introduction
On the Activity of Materials
Interviews: Scientists on Active Matter
Interview with Thomas Speck: “You Don’t Want to Build an Oak Tree – You Want to Invent It.” Plants as Active Matter
Interview with Joanna Aizenberg: On Responsive and Adaptive Materials
Interview with John Dunlop: Shape-Changing Materials
Interview with Jean-François Joanny: Activity, Instabilities, and Defects
Interview with Barbara Mazzolai: Plants, Plantoids, and Active Materials
Interview with Robert Shepherd: On Soft Robots, Biomimetics, and Beyond
Interview with Ramin Golestanian: Living Matter, or What Is Life?
Interview with Nikolaus Correll: Robotic Materials
Essays: Part 1: Cultural, Scientific, and Design Perspectives
Rethinking Active Matter: Current Developments in Active Materials
Matter of Agency: Active Materials in Digital Design Research
Essays: Part 2: Historical and Philosophical Perspectives
Unsystematic Vitality: From Early Modern Beeswarms to Contemporary Swarm Intelligence
Leibniz’s Concept of Agens in Matter, Space, and Image
Rhetoric’s Active Matters
Proteins as Monads