Santa Fe Institute

An Oil Droplet Division-Fusion Cycle

Caschera, F., Rasmussen, S., Hanczyc, M. M. (2013).

Chempluschem 78(1):52-54

Abstract: Publisher's abstract: Well-oiled machine: Micro and macroscale self-assembled oil droplet structures are viable technologies for drug delivery as well as plausible models for self-replicating materials. When far from equilibrium, droplet systems can become dynamic and effect their own growth and division. Together fusion and divisiondemonstrates a droplet replication cycle.