General aspects of the Fluctuation–Dissipation Relation (FDR), and Response Theory are
considered. After analyzing the conceptual and historical relevance of fluctuations in …

Research on soft materials, including colloidal suspensions, glasses, pastes, emulsions,
foams, polymer networks, liquid crystals, granular materials, and cells, has captured the …

Active materials are characterized by continuous injection of energy at the microscopic level
and typically cannot be adequately described by equilibrium thermodynamics. Here we …

Our aim is to propose a theory which goes beyond the classical formulation of
thermodynamics. This is achieved by enlarging the space of basic independent variables …

One of the outstanding challenges in the field of porous materials is the design and
synthesis of chemical structures with exceptionally high surface areas. Such materials are of …

Cells both actively generate and sensitively react to forces through their mechanical
framework, the cytoskeleton, which is a nonequilibrium composite material including …

Most studies on granular physics have focused on dry granular media, with no liquids
between the grains. However, in geology and many real world applications (eg food …

Granular materials are of substantial importance in many industrial and natural processes,
yet their complex behaviours, ranging from mechanical properties of static packing to their …

We review the general aspects of the concept of temperature in equilibrium and non-
equilibrium statistical mechanics. Although temperature is an old and well-established …

After global observations of asteroid 25143 Itokawa by the Hayabusa spacecraft, we
selected the smooth terrain of the Muses Sea for two touchdowns carried out on 19 and 25 …