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An Abiotic Glass-Bead Collector Exhibiting Active Transport

Animals relocate objects as needed by active motion. Active transport is ubiquitous in living organisms but has been difficult to realize in abiotic systems. Here we show that a self-propelled droplet can gather scattered beads toward one place on a floor and sweep it clean. This is a biomimetic act...

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Autores principales: Goto, Youhei, Kanda, Masato, Yamamoto, Daigo, Shioi, Akihisa
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Nature Publishing Group 2015
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4585695/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26387743
http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/srep14348