The article Playing with active matter, published in the American Journal of Physics, has been featured on Scilight with a news with title “Using Hexbugs to model active matter”.
The news highlights that the approach used in the featured paper will make possible for students in the primary and secondary school system to demonstrate complex active motion principles in the classroom, at an affordable budget.
In fact, experiments at the microscale often require very expensive equipment. The commercially available toys called Hexbugs used in the publication provide a macroscopic analogue of active matter at the microscale and have the advantage of being affordable for experimentation in the classroom.
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Reference:
Hannah Daniel, Using Hexbugs to model active matter, Scilight 2024, 431101 (2024)
doi: 10.1063/10.0032401