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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Garstecki, P. Impossible order. Nature Phys 2, 733–734 (2006). https://doi.org/10.1038/nphys455
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