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- The study focuses on creating artificial self-organized systems inspired by living organisms, emphasizing the importance of controlling complex chemical reactions that are far from equilibrium.
- Researchers developed a droplet open-reactor system that manipulates chemical reactions through processes like droplet fusion and fission, achieving control over chemical fluxes.
- Using microfluidic technology, they implemented both external and autonomous feedback controls to enhance the study of autocatalytic reactions, potentially benefiting chemical and biomedical research.
Article Abstract
The design, construction and control of artificial self-organized systems modelled on dynamical behaviours of living systems are important issues in biologically inspired engineering. Such systems are usually based on complex reaction dynamics far from equilibrium; therefore, the control of non-equilibrium conditions is required. Here we report a droplet open-reactor system, based on droplet fusion and fission, that achieves dynamical control over chemical fluxes into/out of the reactor for chemical reactions far from equilibrium. We mathematically reveal that the control mechanism is formulated as pulse-density modulation control of the fusion-fission timing. We produce the droplet open-reactor system using microfluidic technologies and then perform external control and autonomous feedback control over autocatalytic chemical oscillation reactions far from equilibrium. We believe that this system will be valuable for the dynamical control over self-organized phenomena far from equilibrium in chemical and biomedical studies.
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