Maze solving by chemotactic droplets

I Lagzi, S Soh, PJ Wesson, KP Browne… - Journal of the …, 2010 - ACS Publications
… a complex maze to seek a source of acid placed at one of the maze’s exits. In doing so, the
droplets find the shortest path through the maze. Chemotaxis and maze solving are due to an …

Maze-solving by chemotaxis

AM Reynolds - Physical Review E—Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft …, 2010 - APS
… Here, we report on numerical simulations showing that chemotaxis will take droplets of
organic solvent and biological organisms via the shortest possible route through standard …

Chemotactic droplet swimmers in complex geometries

C Jin, BV Hokmabad, KA Baldwin… - Journal of Physics …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
… by surfactant diffusing into the maze from the exit. Second, we let auto-chemotactic droplet
… between the branch choices of consecutive droplets. We present an analytical Langevin …

Chemical-based maze solving techniques

K Suzuno, D Ueyama, I Lagzi - Current Physical Chemistry, 2015 - ingentaconnect.com
… methods for maze solving from using chemical wave propagation in an excitable medium
to a self-propelled chemotactic droplet, which moves toward a low pH region. Chemotaxis is …

Chemotaxis and autochemotaxis of self-propelling droplet swimmers

C Jin, C Krüger, CC Maass - Proceedings of the National …, 2017 - National Acad Sciences
… We present a well-controllable droplet swimmer system exhibiting both chemotaxis and …
Maze solving by chemotactic droplet swimmers. White arrows indicate maze entrance and …

Maze solving using fatty acid chemistry

K Suzuno, D Ueyama, M Branicki, R Tóth, A Braun… - Langmuir, 2014 - ACS Publications
maze solving and visualizing all possible paths using fatty acid chemistry. Contrary to a previous
study, (11) in which a chemotactic fatty acid droplet could solve the maze … of the droplet, (…

Shortest path finding in mazes by active and passive particles

J Čejková, R Tóth, A Braun, M Branicki… - Shortest Path Solvers …, 2018 - Springer
… for maze solving in two-dimensional standard mazes which … We show that maze solving can
be implemented by using: (i) … , the chemotactic droplets are capable of solving the maze by …

Bacterial chemotaxis in a microfluidic T-maze reveals strong phenotypic heterogeneity in chemotactic sensitivity

MM Salek, F Carrara, V Fernandez, JS Guasto… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
chemotactic abilities of cells are heterogeneous even within a clonal population, and that our
T-maze is able to sort the highly chemotactic … A droplet containing cells is placed at the inlet …

Slime mold solves maze in one pass, assisted by gradient of chemo-attractants

A Adamatzky - IEEE transactions on nanobioscience, 2012 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
… of the maze thus examining the maze’s structure in full. The BZ maze solver does not … -medium
[2] and mobile-droplet [5] solvers: solution time is measured in minutes and hours. …

Droplets as liquid robots

J Čejková, T Banno, MM Hanczyc, F Štěpánek - Artificial life, 2017 - direct.mit.edu
… [62] have shown maze solving by chemotactic droplets, where oil droplets (mineral oil or
dichlormethane) containing 2-hexyldecanoic acid (HDA) were able to move to the area with …