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Active-Matter Battery
Abstract
Harnessing active matter to power functional devices has attracted growing interest. We propose a minimal battery model for storing energy extracted from active matter and derive its charging and discharging characteristics analytically. When the energetic cost of sustaining activity is included, the charging power-efficiency trade-off becomes loop-like and the efficiency attains a finite-time maximum, in sharp contrast to passive energy devices.
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BibTeX
@misc{lin2026activematter,
title = {{Active-Matter Battery}},
author = {Yun-Qian Lin and Rui-Han Liu and Yu-Han Ma},
howpublished = {arXiv},
year = {2026},
month = oct,
doi = {10.48550/arxiv.2610.00428},
eprint = {2610.00428},
archivePrefix = {arXiv},
url = {https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00428},
}
RIS
TY - UNPB
TI - Active-Matter Battery
AU - Yun-Qian Lin
AU - Rui-Han Liu
AU - Yu-Han Ma
PY - 2026
DA - 2026/10/01
PB - arXiv
DO - 10.48550/arxiv.2610.00428
UR - https://arxiv.org/abs/2610.00428
AB - Harnessing active matter to power functional devices has attracted growing interest. We propose a minimal battery model for storing energy extracted from active matter and derive its charging and discharging characteristics analytically. When the energetic cost of sustaining activity is included, the charging power-efficiency trade-off becomes loop-like and the efficiency attains a finite-time maximum, in sharp contrast to passive energy devices.
ER -