The concept of emergence is elegantly seen in biology, from ant colonies to bird flocks. Work led by Hongshuang Guo presents emergent behavior in synthetic LCE rings with collective locomotion driven by inter-ring interaction, not by motion of individual rings. Check it out!
doi.org/10.1002/adma...
How is retweeting called in this forum...🤔
Anyway, I share the poster for International Liquid Crystal Elastomer Conference, to be held in Tampere on 11-15.8.2025
Great topic & great lineup
Submission deadline 28.2, sauna evening 14.8
ilcec2025@tuni.fi
events.tuni.fi/ilcec2025/
Please re-#%! ;)
Goodbye X, welcome Bluesky. Thanks to @durndn-na.bsky.social - I am here because of you. Let's see how this goes...
My first post honors the time spent with Guillen, Mustafa, Jacopo, Milan, and others at GRC conference on Complex and Adaptive Material Systems in Ventura, CA.
It was a pleasure :)
