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SOFT MATTER
Volume 13, Issue 37, Pages 6450-6457Publisher
ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY
DOI: 10.1039/c7sm01117b
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [17K05613, 16K05696, 16K14910] Funding Source: KAKEN
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It is well known that oil droplets in or on water exhibit spontaneous movement induced by surfactants, and this self-propulsion is regarded as an important factor in droplet-based models for a living cell. We report here an oil-droplet system spontaneously producing amino acid-based surfactants, which are then utilized for the droplets' self-propulsion. Thus this system is an active system capable of producing the fuel for the propulsion by itself, which can be used as a conceptual model for cell metabolism.
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