EPJ Plus Focus Point: Multiscale Modelling and Physics of Biological and Hybrid Organic Systems – Part II: Active, Adaptive and Self-Repairing Systems

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Published on 21 May 2026

Guest Editors: Massimiliano Fraldi, Stefania Palumbo, Martine Ben Amar

This Focus Point on Multiscale Modelling and Physics of Biological and Hybrid Organic Systems – Part II: Active, Adaptive and Self-Repairing Systems is the second in a two-part series of topical collections in EPJ Plus examining substantial progress and emerging research directions in the physics-based modelling of non-equilibrium biological matter and adaptive bioinspired materials.

Following the first edition dedicated to biomaterials and hybrid organic–inorganic platforms, this second edition will focus on active, adaptive and self-repairing systems, addressing the physical mechanisms that enable living matter and bioinspired materials to sense, respond, reorganize and restore functionality. Topics include active mechanics, mechano-chemical feedback, collective dynamics in cellular assemblies and tissues, growth and remodelling processes, damage–repair cycles, nonlinear instabilities and pattern formation in out-of-equilibrium systems, and multiscale modelling strategies bridging microscopic dynamics and macroscopic adaptive behaviour. While emphasis is on the mathematical, physical and computational modelling of these dynamical processes, the guest editors would like to expressly invite methods papers, protocols, reproducible modelling workflows, computational tools and open-source pipelines, together with data reviews and benchmarking resources, and experimental or in vitro studies aimed at quantitatively constraining, validating or benchmarking theoretical models.

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