Research Topic on our Lab.
“Reproducing Life-like Behaviors using Inanimate Materials, and Uncovering Fundamental Mechanisms of Life-like Phenomena”
We challenge to elucidate the universal mechanism by reproducing the characteristic phenomena observed in biological systems without using living materials. In our lab., we focus on “self-propelled motion”, “rhythmic phenomena”, and “pattern formation phenomena”, and try to reproduce such behaviors in non-living systems. Furthermore, we construct mathematical model reproducing such characteristic phenomena and clarify the fundamental and universal mechanism of them.
Self-propelled Motion
“Micromachines that directly convert chemical energy into kinetic energy”
Rhythmic Phenomena
“Oscillation repeatedly between two or more different states”
Pattern
formation
phenomena
“A fascinating phenomenon in which beautiful structures and regular patterns are formed”
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Graduate School of Advanced Mathematical Sciences
Self-propelled Motion
Self-propelled motion of the BZ droplet
Collective motion of circular camphor disks
Rhythmic Phenomena
Chemical oscillatory reaction
Intermittent motion of a phenanthroline disk
Pattern formation phenomena
Target pattern in the BZ reaction
Dendritic structure of sodium chrolide