Physics · Condensed Matter Physics
A topic within Condensed Matter Physics, itself one of 12 topics in that field and part of Physics.
2 works
Pierre-Gilles de Gennes
Argues that polymers, liquid crystals and colloids share one underlying physics of weak, disordered interactions and slow, cooperative response, and proposes soft matter as physics's name for that shared behaviour.
link checked 17 Sept 2026M. Cristina Marchetti et al.
Extends continuum hydrodynamics to self-driven particles, such as bacteria and cytoskeletal filaments, that continuously convert stored energy into motion, and shows their collective flows disobey ordinary equilibrium thermodynamics.
link checked 17 Sept 2026