Jellyfish-Inspired Pumps
Tuesday, November 23, 2010 - 19:30
in Physics & Chemistry
To researchers at the California Institute of Technology, the undulations of the simple invertebrate jellyfish hold secrets that may make possible a new generation of tiny pumps for medical applications and soft robotics -- work described today at the American Physical Society Division of Fluid Dynamics (DFD) meeting in Long Beach, CA.