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SUBMITTER: Goto Y
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4585695 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Goto Youhei Y Kanda Masato M Yamamoto Daigo D Shioi Akihisa A
Scientific reports 20150921
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 active transport with loadings and unloadings, because the transport was performed by a carrier and the motion of the carrier was maintained by the energy of the chemical reaction. The oil droplet produc ...[more]