Issue 41, 2020

Leveraging synthetic particles for communication: from passive to active systems

Abstract

Communication is one of the most remarkable behaviors in the living world. It is an important prerequisite for building an artificial cell which can be considered as alive. Achieving complex communicative behaviors leveraging synthetic particles will likely fill the gap between artificial vesicles and natural counterpart of cells and allow for the discovery of new therapies in medicine. In this review, we highlight recent endeavors for constructing communication with synthetic particles by revealing the principles underlying the communicative behaviors. Emergent progress using active particles to achieve communication is also discussed, which resembles the dynamic and out-of-equilibrium properties of communication in nature.

Graphical abstract: Leveraging synthetic particles for communication: from passive to active systems

Article information

Article type
Review Article
Submitted
31 Jul 2020
Accepted
12 Oct 2020
First published
13 Oct 2020
This article is Open Access
Creative Commons BY license

Nanoscale, 2020,12, 21015-21033

Leveraging synthetic particles for communication: from passive to active systems

J. Luan, D. Wang and D. A. Wilson, Nanoscale, 2020, 12, 21015 DOI: 10.1039/D0NR05675H

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