Chemo-responsive, self-oscillating gels that undergo biomimetic communication.

نویسندگان

  • Olga Kuksenok
  • Pratyush Dayal
  • Amitabh Bhattacharya
  • Victor V Yashin
  • Debabrata Deb
  • Irene C Chen
  • Krystyn J Van Vliet
  • Anna C Balazs
چکیده

Species ranging from single-cell organisms to social insects can undergo auto-chemotaxis, where the entities move towards a chemo-attractant that they themselves emit. Polymer gels undergoing the self-oscillating Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction exhibit autonomous, periodic pulsations, which produce chemical species collectively referred to as the activator. The diffusion of this activator into the surrounding solution affects the dynamic behavior of neighboring BZ gels and hence, the BZ gels not only emit, but also respond to self-generated chemical gradients. This review describes recent experimental and computational studies that reveal how this biomimetic behavior effectively allows neighboring BZ gels to undergo cooperative, self-propelled motion. These distinctive properties of the BZ gels provide a route for creating reconfigurable materials that autonomously communicate with neighboring units and thereby actively participate in constructing the desired structures.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Chemical Society reviews

دوره 42 17  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2013