Evolution of oil droplets in a chemorobotic platform

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Gutierrez, Juan Manuel Parrilla ^a   Hinkley, Trevor ^a   Taylor, James Ward ^a   Yanev, Kliment ^b   Cronin, Leroy ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GLASGOW   (United Kingdom)

^b Future Bits OpenTech UG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

OIL;

CHEMICAL COMPOUND; EVOLUTIONARY THEORY; GENOTYPE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; OIL; POPULATION GENETICS; ROBOTICS; SOFTWARE; VIBRATION;

ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CHEMISTRY; EVOLUTION; FOLLOW UP; GENOTYPE PHENOTYPE CORRELATION; HYDROLYSIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; PETRI DISH; PHASE SEPARATION; ROBOTICS; SURFACE TENSION; VIBRATION;

EID: 84922625579     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms6571     Document Type: Article

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