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Programming an aqueous solution to paint a "French flag"
01
MAY 2017

Inspired by a process happening at the beginning of embryonic development, a team of chemists and physicists have engineered an equeous solution that self-organizes into a structure with three chemically distinct bands. This type of structure have been called by developmental biologists Lewis Wolpert in 1969 a Frech flag pattern.

 

 

Read the paper

Synthesis and materialization of a reaction-diffusion French flag pattern, A. Zadorin, Y. Rondelez, G, Gines, V. Dilhas, G. Urtel, A. Zambrano, J.-C. Galas, and A. Estevez-Torres, Nat. Chem.

Preprint sur arxiv

Article dans Nature chemistry

 

Researcher contact

 J.-C. Galas (jean-christophe.galas@upmc.fr)

 A. Estevez-Torres (andre.estevez-torres@upmc.fr)

 

More information at

 Laboratoire Jean Perrin (http://www.labos.upmc.fr/ljp/?article13)