During my Master’s work, I built microfluidic networks of tiny chemical reactors containing a rhythmic chemical oscillator. By controlling how the reactors were coupled, the system produced coordinated oscillations similar to biological central pattern generators. This demonstrated how complex, collective behavior can emerge from simple chemical components and led to my first first-author publication.
Litschel T, Norton MM, Tserunyan V, Fraden S
“Engineering reaction-diffusion networks with properties of neural tissue” (Research Paper)
Lab on a Chip, 2018, 18:714-722 [Link]
Thomas Litschel 