What is intelligent oil and what does it do?

[Borek]

"intelligent" oil

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXgP8rq_wfA

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMHjDzpOVg

 

[Monique]

Amazing video, but of course they learned the trick from the maze-solving amoeba:
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v407/n6803/abs/407470a0.html" it earned the researchers an Ig Nobel prize.

 

[Ygggdrasil]

Amazing what simple acid/base chemistry can do. For those interested in reading the associated paper with these videos explaining the phenomena, see:

Lagzi et al. 2010. Maze Solving by Chemotactic Droplets. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132: 1198-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja9076793

 

[leroyjenkens]

Amazing what simple acid/base chemistry can do. For those interested in reading the associated paper with these videos explaining the phenomena, see:

Lagzi et al. 2010. Maze Solving by Chemotactic Droplets. J. Am. Chem. Soc. 132: 1198-9. http://dx.doi.org/10.1021/ja9076793

Oh, so it's in water. I wondered how it could know where it is just being in air.