Comparable to: She and Her Perfect Husband (cdrama) ; Find Yourself (cdrama); Something in the Rain (kdrama)
Cute, but……….here’s the thing I love Dylan Wang, loved him since Meteor Garden, and can you believe I have yet to see Love Between Fairy and Devil which so many friends have urged me to watch but I’m so backlogged it’s someone on my galliionzith unmatched list. I just felt in this drama he was miscast where there’s zero chemistry between the leads. It had nothing to do with the age gap either.I love age gaps. It’s just that this cdrama I thought would of done better if it focused more on the ‘political’ business office background then the romance. It did well with showing how an ambitions woman tries their hardest to reach the top and how cutthroat especially snakelike it can get.
Development blog for the upcoming IF: The Whisper in the Mist. This IF is based on Pacific Rim media (with a focus on the 2013 film).
Asks are welcome (including explicit asks).
Rated 18+ for explicit language, unhealthy coping methods, dark humour, mental health issues, character death, sexual content (optional), violence, blood, gore, mutilation and body horror, and murder and attempted murder. Will be updated as needed.
Setting: Tsing Yi Island, Hong Kong (with futuristic elements).
Other IF account: @kalorphic
When I was a kid, whenever I'd feel small or lonely...I'd look up at the stars and wonder if there was life up there. Turns out I was looking in the wrong direction.
When alien life entered our world it was from deep beneath the Pacific Ocean. A fissure between two tectonic plates. A portal between dimensions.
They called it the Breach.
- Raleigh Beckett (Pacific Rim).
It’s funny how quickly things can change.
One minute you’re on top of the world, then the next, your world is crumbling down around you…
Five years ago, you and your drift partner had the highest success rates of any Jaeger pilots. Now, one horrific tragedy and a hasty promotion later, you’re pushing pencils thousands of miles away from the place you called home.
That is, until a Kaiju with stealth abilities like nothing that’s ever been seen before crawls out of the Breach.
Recalled back into service, you’re forced to team up with your once rival under the command of your former drift partner, and the advice of two scientists who seem more interested in the Kaiju’s than your safety. All while someone with more money than sense attempts to undermine you at every turn.
With everything seemingly against you, will you take up the mantle of hero once more or will you let the darkness plaguing your mind consume you?
Customisable MC (including name, pronouns, appearance, and identity). Personality is semi-set (MC uses humour and sarcasm as a coping method for their trauma) for a majority of the time, however there will be chances for character development and therefore more personality choices.
Pilot a Jaeger, fight Kaiju’s, and keep the world safe all while battling your own demons.
Five characters are available to romance. Two are only romanceable in a (triad) poly.
Found family.
RO PoVs.
Befriend (and potentially adopt) a baby Kaiju. Also give your dog lots of love.
Ciaran O’Doherty [M/F] - Hot-tempered and viciously in denial of the love they have for you that has only seemed to grow in your absence, Ciaran is your newly assigned drift partner and self-proclaimed rival. [PROFILE].
Killian Zhao [M/F] - Once a talented pilot and your former drift partner, Killian is now your formidable and highly respected commanding officer with a soft spot reserved just for you. [PROFILE].
Brin Kazlauskas [M/F/NB] - Waspish, fastidious, and someone that no one wants to be on the wrong side of, Brin is a K-Science officer with a wicked protective streak towards Zai and you . Only romanceable in a poly with Zai. [PROFILE].
Zai Oumarou [M/F/NB] - Despite a somewhat anxious disposition around those xe doesn’t know, Zai is a K-Science officer with a lot of enthusiasm and a deep curiosity towards Kaiju. Only romanceable in a poly with Brin. [PROFILE].
Ajax Nikolaou [M!NB/F!NB] - With a twisted determination to be a giant pain in your ass, Ajax is the ruthless CEO of Nikolaou Industries, a company that seeks to make the Pan Pacific Defense Corps completely redundant. [PROFILE].
Ferelith [F] - The baby Kaiju with a sweet character that was rescued by Zai, Ferelith loves cuddles, Lord of the Rings (according to Zai), and munching on Brin’s lab coat.
Welcome to the 'Best Character with [X] surname' polls!
This is where I take several characters from different Chinese media (mostly cnovels and cdrama) and run a poll on which one is the 'best'. What does best mean? It's up to you! Whether you love them, are intrigued by their characters, love to hate them, or they're your '2 second blorbos whose personality you made up wholesale', these are all reasons for you to vote for your favs!
NB: the surnames are not exactly the same in all the cases, as often they will be a different character. I am, however, grouping them all together otherwise things got more complicated.
If you can't find a surname, it's because I couldn't find enough candidates (at least 3 from 3 distinct medias) to compete. Feel free to submit candidates!
I will be posting several polls at a time, so do come back and check this masterpost to remember which polls are ongoing, who the winners are, and who's coming up next!
Currently ongoing polls:/Chao/Xin/Ran/Sang/Miao/Cang/Yao/Zang/Chong/Nangong/Kong/Hai/Deng/Kang
Happy Pride. These are my Limbus Company headcanons. ID in alt, long ass explanations + extra headcanons under the cut bc I didn't like the look of when i put two flags on each character.
The City is a hellscape but it IS established that being GNC is cool in ruina, and I'm going off of the assumption that being nonconforming is fine for the most part, but queer identities aren't really something people talk about, BUT also it does vary wildly depending on the part of the city, leading to culture shock with a few characters having come from more conservative areas (sinclair, don quixote) when seeing people from more relaxed areas just living their best lives (faust, outis). (warning for mentions of trans and homophobia)
Dante isn't sure if they identified like this already or if they were just kind of assigned nonbinary when they had amnesia and has not questioned this. If they were to think about it, they would still be nonbinary, but maybe in a different way? They have the Agonies to go through and amnesia to wretsle with though, so they don't spend much time thinking abt gender when they;re fine with it as it is.
Sinclair is an egg still, but will eventually realise he is bigender and gay (for guys). He is aware of and respects nonbinary people and ppl who use other pronouns like Dante but subconsiously thinks that you need to have like, qualifications to be allowed identify as trans and it's not something that just anyone is allowed to do. He still hasn't accepted that he likes boys OR that he's not into girls. Give him some time, poor kid has catholic guilt in a setting with no catholics, he thinks every little thing he does is sinful, nevermind the stuff that other people actually say is a sin. He thinks its fine and is supportive when others are queer but not when he is.
Ishmael is a lesbian. She got up to some yuri on that boat. Nowadays she's too focused on revenge to think about romance though.
Meursault is pan. He doesn't care about gender, just appearance (he has comically high standards here, usually) and whether you make him do stuff he doesn't wanna do or not (he has comically low standards here, usually).
Rodya is bi. She will flirt with guys and girls alike, but when she's chatting up a woman she takes extra care to make sure it can easily be taken as a joke. My source for this is when she's flirting with Faust in canto 4. Bi4Bi with Gregor, at least in the LCB universe; she gets with others in different realities.
Gregor is also bi, nad pretty casual about it. Like, he gets nervous when chatting with anyone hot, but he's no more nervous with guys than with girls. I also like him being a trans guy, but I still need to workshop my lore for that. Bi4Bi with Rodya in the LCB universe, damn near bitchless in every other one. He has NO game.
Yi sang is something called reflectshift, which was defined by the coiner as "a gender related to mirrors , reflections & shapeshifting". He uses any pronouns but he doesn't tell people this and so people only use he/him so now he yearns for just one weirdo to break the cycle and call him something else. He will not ever express this sentiment, nor will he ever bring up his gender unless prompted, though if he is directly asked he will go on a long poetic rant about it.
Faust was a woman but then she made that contract with that undefined being and their minds connected so now Faust is a demigirl and Faust is Faust.
Outis is a lesbian the way the way many ancient greeks were gay. Men just aren't as smart or hot or personable or cool or strong as women, you see, they don't have the soul,
Hong Lu is gay. He thinks straight people are like, not real. All the books he's read only have straight romance in them but he thinks it's like, just one of those things that people think they should add, or like a job, where no-one actually WANTS to be straight but they have to, for some undefined reason.
Ryoshu is a trans guy. He cut his own hair with a sword in a dramatic moment. It's not that he hides his identity, but he's fine with people assuming he's a cis woman bc it is funny. He will confidently walk into mens restrooms or walk around in just boxers or whatever and everyone is always just like "oh man, ryoshu's doing a fucking bit again", which is funny enough that he doesn't say anything. If someone were to react with genuine hatred or something, though, he would walk up to them, explain that he IS a guy, and kill them. It's an art.
Don Quixote is a lesbiknight, a gender "related to being a lesbian and being a knight". She used to be out, and used she/her, he/him, and the neopronouns he/her/heroself, but after one too many incidents from before joining LCB and after losing sancho (her one ally) she has decided to just be a normal weird girl since people are nicer that way.
Heathcliff is currently only about Catherine, but if she had been another gender, he would have fallen just as hard. While he hasn't processed his identity, he is still perfectly happy to knock the brains out of homo/transphobes, because he likes hitting stuck up bastards with his baseball bat and he does feel very strongly that people should be able to do whatever they want without any buggers butting in on wtuff thats not their buisness. Good for him.
Demian is bi, and his gender is "a normal human boy" or "a boy, which is one of the most common genders held by homo sapiens, who are the dominent species on earth, not counting us abnormalities, of course".
Oh yeah also Charon is a lesbian. So is Sonya. That one person who said Sonya is a he/him lesbian is so real.
OH AND ANGELA IS A TRANS GUY. I will die on this fucking hill.
Sinclair's entire section here is inspired by both the game and the book. Ishmael was pure vibes. Ryoshu was inspired by the insane backstory i came up with for her after reading hell screen. You could read hell screen and not in a million years understand the backstory i came up with. Hong Lu not knowing abt straight people was inspired by my own experiences being uninterested in romance. Thank you.
Inspired by butterfly wings, researchers develop a soft, color-changing system for optical devices
Researchers at the University of Hong Kong (HKU) have designed an innovative pixelated, soft, color-changing system called a Morphable Concavity Array (MoCA).
Pixelated, soft, color-changing systems are malleable structures that can change color by manipulating light. They have applications in a wide range of industries, from medical bandages that change color if there is an infection, to foldable screens on smartphones and tablets, as well as wearable technology where sensors are integrated into the clothing fabric.
The research was co-directed by Professor Anderson Ho Cheung Shum from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at HKU, and Professor Mingzhu Li from the Institute of Chemistry, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and led by Dr. Yi Pan from the Department of Mechanical Engineering at HKU.
The study was published in Advanced Science titled "Pixelating Responsive Structural Color via a Bioinspired Morphable Concavity Array (MoCA) Composed of 2D Photonic Crystal Elastomer Actuators."
a o e i i er ai ei ao ou an en ang eng ong i ia iao ie iu ian in iang ing iong u ua uo uai ui uan un uang ueng ü üe üan ün a o e er ai ao ou an en ang eng yi ya yao ye you yan yin yang ying yong wu wa wo wai wei wan wen wang weng yu yue yuan yun b ba bo bai bei bao ban ben bang beng bi biao bie bian bin bing bu p pa po pai pei pao pou pan pen pang peng pi piao pie pian pin ping pu m ma mo me mai mei mao mou man men mang meng mi miao mie miu mian min ming mu f fa fo fei fou fan fen fang feng fu d da de dai dei dao dou dan den dang deng dong di diao die diu dian ding du duo dui duan dun t ta te tai tei tao tou tan tang teng tong ti tiao tie tian ting tu tuo tui tuan tun n na ne nai nei nao nou nan nen nang neng nong ni niao nie niu nian nin niang ning nu nuo nuan nü nüe l la le lai lei lao lou lan lang leng long li lia liao lie liu lian lin liang ling lu luo luan lun lü lüe g ga ge gai gei gao gou gan gen gang geng gong gu gua guo guai gui guan gun guang k ka ke kai kei kao kou kan ken kang keng kong ku kua kuo kuai kui kuan kun kuang h ha he hai hei hao hou han hen hang heng hong hu hua huo huai hui huan hun huang z za ze zi zai zei zao zou zan zen zang zeng zong zu zuo zui zuan zun c ca ce ci cai cao cou can cen cang ceng cong cu cuo cui cuan cun s sa se si sai sao sou san sen sang seng song su suo sui suan sun zh zha zhe zhi zhai zhei zhao zhou zhan zhen zhang zheng zhong zhu zhua zhuo zhuai zhui zhuan zhun zhuang ch cha che chi chai chao chou chan chen chang cheng chong chu chua chuo chuai chui chuan chun chuang sh sha she shi shai shei shao shou shan shen shang sheng shu shua shuo shuai shui shuan shun shuang r re ri rao rou ran ren rang reng rong ru rua ruo rui ruan run j ji jia jiao jie jiu jian jin jiang jing jiong ju jue juan jun q qi qia qiao qie qiu qian qin qiang qing qiong qu que quan qun x xi xia xiao xie xiu xian xin xiang xing xiong xu xue xuan xun
I am Ace! (They/Them) I’m a funny little writer, I like classic lit, Limbus launched and I got into Project Moon. We will see if this blog maintains ANY sort of consistent activity.
My Limbus Company friend code is S359631343 - I try to keep units relatively leveled and have my favorite/most powerful of each sinner up in their respective number slot. If you know me via discord or somewhere else just message me and I’m willing to swap out IDs and EGO and the like to meet needs!
Favorite Sinners are Sinclair, Meursault, Rodya, Yi Sang, Faust, Hong Lu, and Gregor because everyone like Gregor that’s the law. But I generally enjoy everyone!!
General info on my “bus” of fansinners underneath the cut.
Limbus OC content generally under the tag “LCR (limbus company railway)”
Individual Sinner/Character Tags for this blog:
Yi Sang - make friends with crows
Faust - faust is quite gay
Don Quixote - ONWARD BRAVE KNIGHT
Ryoushuu - B.L.E.E.D. (Big Lesbian Energy Extra Debauchery)
Meursault - MEURSAULTS TITS
Hong Lu - poor little rich boy
Heathcliff - hes gonna clobber ya
Ishmael - fishmael
Rodion - gambling addiction
Sinclair - cheepcheep
Outis - outism moment
Gregor - *scuttling noises*
Dante - tiktok
Vergilius - oh no hes giving me THE LOOK--
Charon - the wheels on the bus go crunch crunch crunch
Sinner #1 (23) - Kai
Source: The Snow Queen (Hans Christen Andersen)
Color: Beau Blue (BCD4E6)
Icon: A Snowflake
Weapon: Virkelighed (Danish; "Reality") [Unique knife designed for slashing, blade loops around the fingers of a fist much like brass knuckles.]
E.G.O.: The Devil's Mirror
Sinner #2 (24) - Pan
Source: Peter Pan (J. M. Barrie)
Color: Forest Green (0B6623)
Icon: Panpipes & a Feather
Weapon: Youth [Short sword.]
E.G.O.: Second Star to the Right
Sinner #3 (25) - Dorothy
Source: The Wonderful Wizard of Oz (L. Frank Baum)
Color: Ruddy Blue (76ABDF)
Icon: The Silver Slippers
Weapon: Home [A hammer.]
E.G.O.: Over the Rainbow
Sinner #4 (26) - Orpheus
Source: Greek Myth
Color: Bone (E7DECC)
Icon: A Lyre.
Weapon: Μούσα (Greek; "Muse") [A guitar.]
E.G.O.: Don’t Look Back
Sinner #5 (27) - Aino
Source: The Kalevala (The National Epic of Finland)
Color: Arsenic (3B444B)
Icon: A Fish.
Weapon: Neitsyt (Finnish; "Maiden") [A whip.]
E.G.O.: Moonmaid’s Silver, Sunmaid’s Gold
Sinner #6 (28) - Charles Wallace
Source: A Wrinkle In Time (Madeleine L'Engle)
Color: Pastel Pink (FFD1DC)
Icon: A ringed planet.
Weapon: Tesseract [A flail.]
E.G.O.: Something New
Sinner #7 (29) - Hallward
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Color: Teal (48AAAD)
Icon: A painter’s palette.
Weapon: Worship [A staff.]
E.G.O.: Portrait of the Artist
Sinner #9 (31) - Momo
Source: Momo or The Gray Men (Michael Ende)
Color: Ochre (CC7722)
Icon: A blossoming flower.
Weapon: Zeit (German; "Time") [Armor.]
E.G.O.: The Hour Blossoms
Sinner #10 (32) - Candide
Source: Candide (Voltaire)
Color: Eminence (6C3082)
Icon: A two-sided mask, reminiscent of that of comedy and tragedy.
Weapon: Pire (French; "Worst") [A rapier.]
E.G.O.: Everything Is Best
Sinner #11 (33) - Billy Pilgrim
Source: Slaughterhouse 5 (Kurt Vonnegut)
Color: Ruby (900603)
Icon: A broken clock.
Weapon: Poo-tee-weet [A shotgun.]
E.G.O.: Unstuck in Time
Sinner #12 (34) - Darcy
Source: Pride & Prejudice (Jane Austen)
Color: Yale Blue (00356B)
Icon: A coin & ring.
Weapon: Pride [Throwing knives.]
E.G.O.: Lost Forever
Sinner #13 (35) - Riviera
Source: Neuromancer (William Gibson)
Color: Lime (AEF359)
Icon: A syringe.
Weapon: Chrome [Claws.]
E.G.O.: Millions of Illusions
Sinner #8 [30] MANAGER - Alice
Source: Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carrol)
GUIDE - Lily / The White Queen
Source: Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carrol)
E.G.O.: Lost Daughter
DRIVER - Nemo
Source: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (Jules Verne)
I write porn so that's why the language includes allusions to what parts. I think they have these are literally my toned down fic notes. Still slight nsfw warning for some dick references.
Angela
Transfem. She/Her
Pan. Shipped with Binah and my oc
Soft body. No real muscles. Got a bit of a soft tummy after being human for a bit and eating.
Scar on forehead.
Roland
Cis...? Genderfluid. Questioning after Ruina Realizations. A bit transfem. He/they.
Bi. Shipped with Chesed, Vergilius, Angelica, Oliver, and my oc. Guy gets around...
Buff. Pecs the size of tits. Tons of scars. Hands are weird texture, used to be very rough but are starting to soften since he started wearing gloves.
Malkulth
Agender. She/her.
Pan. Shipped with Hod, Yesod, and Netzach. (They're all a polycule)
Yesod
Transman. He/him.
Pan. Upper Layer Polycule.
Tons of scars of course.
Netzach
Nonbinary. He/they.
Pan. Upper Layer Polycule.
IV scars. The art book lies he's way taller.
Hod
Transwoman. She/her.
Pan. Upper Layer Polycule. And Gebura.
Gebura
Cis-ish. She/her.
Lesbian. Shipped with Carmen and Hod. A weird hatesex thing with Chesed.
Buff. Tons of scars. Especially where Binah cut her limbs off. Naturally high testosterone.
Chesed
Transman. He/him.
Gay. Shipped with Roland. Casual sex with Gebura.
Binah
Nonbinary intersex. They/them.
Pan. Shipped with Angela.
Some athletic muscle. Big scar on chest from death. Almost flat chest and I'm right about this. Nipple piercings, tongue piercing, prince Albert piercing.
Hokma
Transman. He/him
Gay. Shipped with Ayin.
No surgery. Big saggy breasts, chest hair.
Carmen:
Transwoman. She/her.
Pan. Shipped with Gebura.
Ayin
Cis. He/him.
Straight, or so he says so. Shipped with Benjamin and Carmen.
Vergilius
Nonbinary amab. He/him.
Bi but aro leaning. Shipped with Roland.
Buff in an athletic way. Very slim waist. Hourglass figure almost.
Yi Sang
Transmasc. He/him.
Aro. I don't know about ships yet. Cute with Faust but not too big on any.
Faust
Transfem. She/no pronouns.
Lesbian. Shipped with Ishmael, Don Quixote, Outis, and my oc.
Buff arms for big sword but otherwise slim athletic. A bit fond of the theory she was artificially created in the same facility as Angelica and Argalia.
Don Quixote
Agender afab. She/it.
Lesbian. Shipped with Faust and Ishmael. Her and Meursault is cute too.
Had top surgery. Very athletic build, doesn't look it but is probably the most physically strong of all the sinners.
Ryusho
Nonbinary. She/he.
Don't really ship with anyone yet.
Burn scars on hands.
Meursault
Agender. He/she
Lesbian. Him and Don are cute. And Gregor.
Hong Lu
Transman. He/him.
Gay. I like almost every ship with him tbh.
His parents paid for his transition. Had bottom surgery (meta not phallo).
Heathcliff
Cis..? No one can tell <3 He/him.
Hatesex with Ishmael but also the kind of frenemies who gossip together and also shit talk each other.
Has a dick, may be bottom surgery. Has so many scars you can't tell if any are top surgery ones but it kind of looks like some are. Beefcake.
Ishmael
Nonbinary afab. She/they.
Shipped with Don and Faust. Hatesex with Heathcliff.
Buff. Rope burn scars on palms. May or may not have a tentacle dick and I have A LOT of headcanons behind that specifically.
Rodion
Transwoman. She/her
Shipped with Gregor. Flirts with everyone and Ishmael and Don get very flustered by it. She would kiss (or fuck) them if they asked.
Curvy but still muscular arms. Softest tummy out of everyone. Her body just stores all the food she eats since she used to not have much.
Sinclair
Transfem (not exactly out yet). She/he. (The original book Sinclair is from, Sinclair is sooo transfem coded.)
Aroace. I guess Demian/Sinclair is cute.
Outis
Transfem. She/he
Shipped with Faust.
Buff. Like really buff. Lots of scars.
Gregor
Transman. He/him
Shipped with Rodion, Hong Lu, Meursault.
Less muscles because he depends on his arm, kind of pudgy and soft. Bear. Genetic modification may have given him a dick. Lactates.
I also ship like every Sinner with Dante. Except Sinclair. I definitely see Sinclair as an adult but I really believe she is aro.
hong lu is gay and i could see him as transmasc or transfem or just Hong Lu (but not cis!) (he/him)
heathcliff is a genderfluid trans man bisexual (he/him primarily. genderfluid in the way that he has persistent identity issues thanks to being borderline because he is just like me fr but he's never a woman)
ishmael is nonbinary lesbian (she/he, i havent thought on whether transfem or transmasc or neither or what but)
a o e i i er ai ei ao ou an en ang eng ong i ia iao ie iu ian in iang ing iong u ua uo uai ui uan un uang ueng ü üe üan ün a o e er ai ao ou an en ang eng yi ya yao ye you yan yin yang ying yong wu wa wo wai wei wan wen wang weng yu yue yuan yun b ba bo bai bei bao ban ben bang beng bi biao bie bian bin bing bu p pa po pai pei pao pou pan pen pang peng pi piao pie pian pin ping pu m ma mo me mai mei mao mou man men mang meng mi miao mie miu mian min ming mu f fa fo fei fou fan fen fang feng fu d da de dai dei dao dou dan den dang deng dong di diao die diu dian ding du duo dui duan dun t ta te tai tei tao tou tan tang teng tong ti tiao tie tian ting tu tuo tui tuan tun n na ne nai nei nao nou nan nen nang neng nong ni niao nie niu nian nin niang ning nu nuo nuan nü nüe l la le lai lei lao lou lan lang leng long li lia liao lie liu lian lin liang ling lu luo luan lun lü lüe g ga ge gai gei gao gou gan gen gang geng gong gu gua guo guai gui guan gun guang k ka ke kai kei kao kou kan ken kang keng kong ku kua kuo kuai kui kuan kun kuang h ha he hai hei hao hou han hen hang heng hong hu hua huo huai hui huan hun huang z za ze zi zai zei zao zou zan zen zang zeng zong zu zuo zui zuan zun c ca ce ci cai cao cou can cen cang ceng cong cu cuo cui cuan cun s sa se si sai sao sou san sen sang seng song su suo sui suan sun zh zha zhe zhi zhai zhei zhao zhou zhan zhen zhang zheng zhong zhu zhua zhuo zhuai zhui zhuan zhun zhuang ch cha che chi chai chao chou chan chen chang cheng chong chu chua chuo chuai chui chuan chun chuang sh sha she shi shai shei shao shou shan shen shang sheng shu shua shuo shuai shui shuan shun shuang r re ri rao rou ran ren rang reng rong ru rua ruo rui ruan run j ji jia jiao jie jiu jian jin jiang jing jiong ju jue juan jun q qi qia qiao qie qiu qian qin qiang qing qiong qu que quan qun x xi xia xiao xie xiu xian xin xiang xing xiong xu xue xuan xun
Scientists often find inspiration in mimicking life’s machinery – microfluidic devices are tiny artificial networks of pipes to control the mixing of chemicals – inspired by those coursing fluids around animals and plants. But every idea has its limits, every design its boundaries, and here researchers push them. They wrap their microfluidics inside shapeshifting polymers that respond to humidity, temperature and light, mimicking how Oxalis corniculata leaves behave whenever the Sun comes out. These nastic movements are not directional – it’s phototropism that allows the plant to bend towards light – but instead use the light as a trigger for opening up in sunlight for photosynthesis. The resulting device pulls yet another engineering secret from life onto the drawing board, so it can be repurposed for different jobs – perhaps as a light-responsive microreactor, or in wearable electronics that help us to adapt to changes in the outside world.
Written by John Ankers
Video from work by Yi Pan and colleagues
Department of Mechanical Engineering, The University of Hong Kong, Pokfulam Road, Hong Kong SAR, China
Video originally published with a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Published in Science Advances, May 2022
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