Oil droplets can navigate complex maze

Written by Chemistry Blog From Networlddirectory on February 22, 2011 – 2:54 pm -

Call them oil droplets with a brain or even "chemo-rats." Researchers in Illinois have developed a way to make simple oil droplets "smart" enough to navigate through a complex maze almost like a trained lab rat. The finding could have a wide range of practical implications, including helping cancer drugs to reach their target and controlling the movement of futuristic nano-machines, the researchers say. Their study is in the weekly Journal of the American Chemical Society.......

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