Chemo-mechanical waves (IMAGE)

University of Pittsburgh

Chemo-mechanical waves

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The chemo-mechanical waves (shown in magenta) produce fluid vortices (black arrows) that move “tentacles” decorating the ring-like elastic network of beads.

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Oleg E. Shklyaev

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