02992nam a22004575i 4500001001800000003000900018005001700027007001500044008004100059020001800100024003500118050000900153072001700162072002300179072001600202100007600218245008300294250001800377264006900395300006500464336002600529337002600555338003600581347002400617490007200641505029000713520111101003650001902114650002302133650002402156650002102180650002302201650002402224710003402248773002602282776003602308776003602344776003602380830007202416856004602488978-3-031-52577-3DE-He21320251030111450.0cr nn 008mamaa240228s2024    sz |    s    |||| 0|eng d  a97830315257737 a10.1007/978-3-031-52577-32doi 4aQ295 7aGPFC2bicssc 7aSCI0640002bisacsh 7aGPFC2thema1 aPiro, Lorenzo.eauthor.4aut4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut10aOptimal Navigation in Active Matterh[electronic resource] /cby Lorenzo Piro.  a1st ed. 2024. 1aCham :bSpringer Nature Switzerland :bImprint: Springer,c2024.  aXII, 122 p. 47 illus., 46 illus. in color.bonline resource.  atextbtxt2rdacontent  acomputerbc2rdamedia  aonline resourcebcr2rdacarrier  atext filebPDF2rda1 aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,x2190-50610 aIntroduction -- Optimal navigation strategies for active particles on curved surfaces -- Efficiency of navigation strategies for active particles in rugged landscapes -- Optimal navigation in complex and noisy environments -- Towards a more realistic description of optimal navigation.  aEfficient navigation in terms of travel time and energy dissipation is of crucial importance for biological micro-swimmers. The design of optimally navigating artificial swimmers also has potentially valuable applications such as targeted drug delivery, which has become an increasingly realistic perspective due to the recent progress in the experimental realization of controllable microswimmers able to perform nontrivial tasks. Despite recent theoretical progress, the field still faces open challenges, notably in describing navigation problems that take into account the complexities of the world of microswimmers. This book presents a selection of works on the problem of optimal microswimmer navigation that represent a significant advance in this direction. The material in this book provides important insights into how efficient navigation may be achieved in the presence of curved space geometry, confining forces and flows, as well as thermal fluctuations. Finally, the energetic cost of navigation is addressed via a new formulation of the problem that accounts for the swimmer body geometry. 0aSystem theory. 0aMaterials science. 0aMolecular dynamics.14aComplex Systems.24aMaterials Science.24aMolecular Dynamics.2 aSpringerLink (Online service)0 tSpringer Nature eBook08iPrinted edition:z978303152576608iPrinted edition:z978303152578008iPrinted edition:z9783031525797 0aSpringer Theses, Recognizing Outstanding Ph.D. Research,x2190-506140uhttps://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-52577-3