Year: 2022

CHEMICAL REACTIONS can be harnessed to do work and develop enhanced materials. Such enhanced materials will become the bread and butter of future claytronic strategies when these independent fields find mutual utility by chance or by dint of reason. View in LinkedIn

PROFESSOR NATHAN FASTEN (1919): "The protoplasm of the living organism consists essentially of (1) water (2) crystalloids and (3) colloids, and it might be truly stated that all the complex and unintelligible manifestations of living matter depend, largely, on the delicate interplay of these three substances." http://www.jstor.org/stable/6796?seq=1 View in LinkedIn

INDUCEABLE SWARMING BEHAVIOR IN COLLOIDS. "Colloidal dispersions are composed of such everyday items such as paint, milk, gelatin, glass, and porcelain. By better understanding driven colloidal self-organization, scientists could harness these particles to create new and enhanced materials." https://lnkd.in/d83MDzQ View in LinkedIn

LIVING COLLOIDS. "There is intense research being done on self-propelled or “living” colloids: particles perhaps a hundred or so nanometers across that have their own means of propulsion, such as chemical reactions that release gas." https://lnkd.in/dzmMmjE View in LinkedIn

LIVING COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS. "Spontaneous formation of colonies of bacteria or flocks of birds are examples of self-organization in active living matter. Here, we demonstrate a form of self-organization from nonequilibrium driving forces in a suspension of synthetic photoactivated colloidal particles. They lead to two-dimensional "living crystals," which form, break, explode, and re-form elsewhere." http://www.sciencemag.org/content/339/6122/936.abstract View in LinkedIn

TWILIGHT ZONE. "Nanometer-sized crystallites (nanocrystallites) can display optical, electronic, and structural properties that often are not present in either isolated molecules or macroscopic solids." One day, the substrate for smart material based Claytronics. " "" " View in LinkedIn

COLLOIDAL CRYSTALS. "The inherant tendency for monodispersed lyophobic colloids to self-organize provides a general route to new nanostructured materials." The modern Alchemist's dream. https://lnkd.in/dbmiSb8 View in LinkedIn

SOFT LIQUID METAL MOTOR that is self-powered and shape-shifting. "Just a drop of metal alloy made mostly of gallium – which is liquid at just under 30 °C – with some indium and tin mixed in. When placed in a solution of sodium hydroxide, or even brine, and kept in contact with a flake of aluminium for 'fuel', it moves around for about an hour. It can travel in a straight line, run around the outside of a circular dish, or squeeze through complex shapes." https://lnkd.in/dJeGFyP View in LinkedIn

SOFT ROBOTS. A pressure differential caused by a charge imbalance between the front and back of the drop is one driver of the liquid metal motor. Also, tiny bubbles from the reaction of aluminium and salt water assist in the movement. https://lnkd.in/d7geFQr View in LinkedIn

LIQUID CRYSTALS. "Liquid crystals enable chemoresponsive reconfigurable colloidal self-assembly." Remember liquid crystals in unusual optical phenomena in nature? https://lnkd.in/dCWEe2S View in LinkedIn