Experimental evidence of explosive synchronization in mercury beating-heart oscillators

P Kumar, DK Verma, P Parmananda, S Boccaletti - Physical Review E, 2015 - APS
We report experimental evidence of explosive synchronization in coupled chemo-
mechanical systems, namely in mercury beating-heart (MBH) oscillators. Connecting four …

Discovery of a voltage-stimulated heartbeat effect in droplets of liquid gallium

Z Yu, Y Chen, FF Yun, D Cortie, L Jiang, X Wang - Physical Review Letters, 2018 - APS
Chemomechanical effects are known to initiate fluid oscillations in certain liquid metals;
however, they typically produce an irregular motion that is difficult to deactivate or control …

Aperiodic bursting dynamics of active rotors

J Sharma, I Tiwari, P Parmananda, M Rivera - Physical Review E, 2022 - APS
We report experiments on an active camphor rotor. A camphor rotor is prepared by infusing
camphor on a regular rectangular paper strip. It performs self-propelled motion at the air …

DC electric field-driven heartbeat phenomenon of gallium-based liquid metal on a floating electrode

Z Ge, Y Tao, W Liu, C Song, R Xue, H Jiang, Y Ren - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
The heart beating phenomenon of room temperature liquid metal (LM) mercury has attracted
much attention in the past years, but its research and application are limited because of the …

Towards synthetic neural networks: can artificial electrochemical neurons be coupled with artificial memristive synapses?

E Wlaźlak, D Przyczyna, R Gutierrez… - Japanese Journal of …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The enormous amount of data generated nowadays worldwide is increasingly triggering the
search for unconventional and more efficient ways of processing and classifying information …

Modes of synchrony in self-propelled pentanol drops

T Roy, SS Chaurasia, JM Cruz, V Pimienta… - Soft Matter, 2022 - pubs.rsc.org
We report various modes of synchrony observed for a population of two, three and four
pentanol drops in a rectangular channel at the air–water interface. Initially, the autonomous …

Rotational synchronization of camphor ribbons in different geometries

J Sharma, I Tiwari, D Das, P Parmananda, V Pimienta - Physical Review E, 2020 - APS
We present experiments on multiple pinned self-propelled camphor ribbons, which is a
rectangular piece of paper with camphor infused in its matrix. Experiments were performed …

Rotational synchronization of camphor ribbons

J Sharma, I Tiwari, D Das, P Parmananda, VS Akella… - Physical Review E, 2019 - APS
Experiments on interacting pinned self-propelled rotators are presented. The rotators are
made from paper with camphor infused in its matrix. The ribbons rotate due to Marangoni …

Kuramoto transition in an ensemble of mercury beating heart systems

DK Verma, H Singh, P Parmananda… - … Journal of Nonlinear …, 2015 - pubs.aip.org
We have studied, experimentally, the collective behavior of the electrically coupled
autonomous Mercury Beating Heart (MBH) systems exhibiting the breathing mode, by …

Exploring the Mercury Beating Heart system: synchronization dynamics and potential applications in the field of nonlinear dynamics

DK Verma, P Kumar, R Singh, S Kumar… - Physica …, 2024 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract The Mercury Beating Heart (MBH) system, an intriguing chemo-mechanical
oscillator, holds significance in experimental nonlinear dynamics. This system features a …