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Vivo-Fluidics and Programmable Matter

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In this talk I will discuss two projects that appear very different but are uniquely unified by the fact that they both involve the use of microfluidics to enable physical control of complex systems. The first of these projects involves our work on Insect Cyborgs or living insects with implanted microdevices. There I will show how we can use implanted microfluidic elements to exert control over the nervous system, turning it on and off on command, by injecting controlled amounts of neurotransmitters. In the second project I will demonstrate how microfluidics can be used to control assembly processes ultimately enabling a new form of “programmable matter”. There I will show how controlling the strength and location of fluidic jets can provide control over fluidic assembly processes enabling affinity tuning, reconfiguration and error correction.

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the DARPA, Microsystems Technology Office, Hybrid Insect MEMS (HI-MEMS) program, through the Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research and the Defense Sciences Office, Programmable Matter Program. Distribution unlimited. Fundamental research exempt from prepublication controls.

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  1. , Department of Mechanical Engineering, TOBB University of Economics and Technol, Soguzozu Cad. 43, Sogutozu, Ankara, 06560, Turkey

    S. Kakaç

  2. , Computer Sciences Department, Odessa State Academy of Refrigeration, Dvoryanskaya Str. 1/3, Odessa, 65082, Ukraine

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  3. , Department of Mechanical & Mechatronics, University of Waterloo, Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Canada

    D. Li

  4. , Department of Mechanical Engineering, Kasetsart University, 59 Moo. 1 Chiang Krer, Amphur Maung, Sakonnakhon, 47000, Thailand

    A. Pramuanjaroenkij

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Erickson, D. (2010). Vivo-Fluidics and Programmable Matter. In: Kakaç, S., Kosoy, B., Li, D., Pramuanjaroenkij, A. (eds) Microfluidics Based Microsystems. NATO Science for Peace and Security Series A: Chemistry and Biology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-9029-4_26

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