Microdroplet reactors mimic living systems
Wednesday, January 20, 2016 - 06:52
in Physics & Chemistry
"Living systems are achieved by complex chemical reaction dynamics far from equilibrium, such as gene expression networks, signalling networks, metabolic circuits and neural networks," explains Masahiro Takinoue at Tokyo Institute of Technology. His team has demonstrated that their microdroplet system can offer the control over chemical fluxes needed to keep this kind of reaction far from equilibrium.