How chemical engineers contribute to artificial life research

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Result language

angličtina

Original language name

How chemical engineers contribute to artificial life research

Original language description

Artificial life is the study of artificial systems that exhibit the behavioural characteristics of natural living systems. In this paper, the field of artificial life will be introduced with an emphasis on wet artificial life, which aims to synthesize artificial cells from chemical precursors. The challenge of creating an artificial cell composed of all attributes of living counterparts (such as growth and development, homeostasis, movement, energy use) is one that is yet to be solved. Our ambition is to create a system that will at least partly mimic cell behaviour. We focus on the investigation of organic droplets in the presence of aqueous solutions of surfactants. We have found that in a similar way to living cells, these droplets are able to perform chemotactic movements in concentration gradients of chemoattractants, change their shape or behave collectively. Recently we proposed to call such droplets with life-like behaviour “liquid robots”. The relation of liquid robots to the origin of the word “robot” will also be discussed. Artificial life is very interdisciplinary, and it will be shown how chemical engineers in particular can contribute to solving the open problems in the field. Droplets defined as liquid robots are a novel concept that could find engineering applications in various areas, such as environmental sensing and remediation.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

D - Article in proceedings

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

20401 - Chemical engineering (plants, products)

Project

<a href="/en/project/GJ17-21696Y" target="_blank" >GJ17-21696Y: Towards the understanding of evaporation induced pattern formation of decanol droplets</a><br>

Continuities

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Publication year

2019

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Article name in the collection

Proceedings 46th International Conference of the Slovak Society of Chemical Engineering

ISBN

978-80-8208-011-0

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e-ISSN

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Number of pages

6

Pages from-to

1-6

Publisher name

Slovak Society of Chemical Engineering

Place of publication

Bratislava

Event location

Tatranské Matliare

Event date

May 20, 2019

Type of event by nationality

WRD - Celosvětová akce

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