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Funding for this research was provided by:
Netherlands Organisation for Scientific Research (213-131-3)
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft
US Army
Research Office (W911NF2310008)
National Science Foundation (2044785)
Army Research Office (W911NF-23-2-0138)
U.S. Government
Morphing Matter Lab
AHRC (AH/R001987/1)
EPSRC (EP/X026892/1)
European Research Council
European Union (101114746)
CUP (E63C22001940)
Europe, PathFinder Open EIC Work Programme
MAPEI (101001267)
Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation (2019.0079)
Liquifer Systems Group
KU Leuven (Belgium), the University of Southampton (UK), SONY
UK Research and Innovation (BB/Y007972/1)
DFG
Germany’s Excellence Strategy (EXC 2117)
Newcastle University
University of Trento
University of the West of England (2019-2021)
Spanish National Research Council, Explora Biotech
KU Leuven
Institute for Cultural Heritage
The Bartlett School of Architecture, UCL
EU (686585)
Computer Science Laboratory
Spanish National Research Council
University of the West of England
University of Southampton
European Research Council (ERC-2019-ADG-883370)
ERC (834615)
UCL MAPS Faculty Visiting Fellowship
Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (UIDB/00618/2020)
AAPR (2020-2019-8330510)
Prof. J.C. Baret
Prof. S. Mann
ESA
University of Liverpool
NSF (DMR-2217543)
Bordeaux and the French Agence (ANR-21-CE06-0022-01)
Univ. Bordeaux Research
Imperial College London
CICECO-Aveiro Institute of Materials (https://doi.org/10.54499/LA/P/0006/2020)
FCT/MCTES
Swedish Foundation for Strategic Research (ITM17-0384)
Article Title: Roadmap for animate matter
Journal Title: Journal of Physics: Condensed Matter
Article Type: paper
Copyright Information: © 2025 The Author(s). Published by IOP Publishing Ltd
Publication dates
Date Received: 2024-08-29
Date Accepted: 2025-07-03
Online publication date: 2025-08-13