Active carpets: Learning to transport at the microscale
Active matter is a discipline that lives on the core between physics and biology, in it we try to describe the behavior of living organisms and the way they interact through equations that reproduce their movement.
This kind of life is abundant when we look under the microscope. Microorganisms are particularly active and abundant on surfaces, from the cilia in the airway borne to biofilms made up of bacteria. In this trip we will discover how this activity on surfaces is capable of transporting molecules and self-cleaning when they are not self-organized and how they are capable of feeding themselves when they move collectively.