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Nature Physics 2, 733 - 734 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys455

Subject Category: Fluid dynamics

Microfluidic crystals: Impossible order

Piotr Garstecki1

  1. Piotr Garstecki is at the Institute of Physical Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland. e-mail: garst@ichf.edu.pl

The discovery that microfluidic 'crystals' exhibit long-range collective behaviour demonstrates their potential use as a testbed for studying dissipative self-organization and other non-equilibrium phenomena.

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