Self-assembled artificial cilia - PNAS - 1 views
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Tobias Seidl on 03 Feb 10Cilia are hairs driven by molecular motors. They are found in monocellular organisms, etc. If we can build such things artificially, we have micro-pumps etc. Any space usability?
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Nicholas Lan on 08 Feb 10carlo's distributed actuator study originally considered cilia as well as peristaltic motion if i remember right. i suppose you might still think about debris transport for digging applications. Originally there was an idea for thermal transport aswell which, it turns out, was bollocks.