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.

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