Nature Communications (Apr 2017)

Active matter logic for autonomous microfluidics

  • Francis G. Woodhouse,
  • Jörn Dunkel

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15169
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 8, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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Active fluids consist of self-driven particles that can drive spontaneous flow without the intervention of external forces. Here Woodhouseet al. show how to design logic circuits using this phenomenon in active fluid networks, which could be further exploited for autonomous microfluidic computing.