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Adamatzky, Andrew; Costello, Benjamin de Lacy; Melhuish, Chris; Ratcliffe, Norman M.

doi:10.1023/a:1025414424756

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“…Chemotactic droplet robots move along gradients of Marangoni flow . Hardware robots can be equipped with liquid brains . Thus, only actuators and interface are conventional.…”

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Electrical Properties of Solvated Tectomers: Toward Zettascale Computing

Chiolerio

Draper

Jost

et al. 2019

Adv Elect Materials

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Liquid cybernetic systems with embodied intelligence solutions mimicking biologic systems, in response to future increasingly distributed sensing and the resulting data to be managed, has been proposed as the next cybernetic paradigm. Storing and computing information inherently pushes research toward extremely high packing densities, shifting from classical into quantum (particle, molecular) physics, chemistry, and materials science with the drawback of requiring very expensive equipment and exotic matter or matter states. Solutions represent a cheap and easy‐to‐handle platform for data storage and readout in liquido, where a physical structure able to change configuration under electrical stimuli reversibly exchanges entropy with the external environment. Tectomers are proposed as a candidate for such an adaptive structure. A tectomer is an oligomer made of few oligoglycine units with a common center. Tectomers undergo pH dependent assembly to form a single layer supramer across a surface. Tectomers represent a stable paradigm, in their amorphous or crystalline forms, reversibly influenced by solution pH, whose electronic properties are studied herein. Through a reasonable hypothesis, how solvated cybernetic systems can be exploited in the rush for zettascale computing will be looked upon.

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“…Chemotactic droplet robots move along gradients of Marangoni flow . Hardware robots can be equipped with liquid brains . Thus, only actuators and interface are conventional.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Electrical Properties of Solvated Tectomers: Toward Zettascale Computing

Chiolerio

Draper

Jost

et al. 2019

Adv Elect Materials

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“…For example, Fredkin & Toffoli [2] have shown that various types of logic gates can be implemented in a similar way to a collision-based, billiard-ball computer. The BZ reaction has also been known to be capable of planning optimal paths, such as maze solving [3], robot navigation [4] and computation of a Voronoi diagram [5]. These systems demonstrate the computational capabilities of chemical systems to carry out computations in a distributed fashion by exploiting the massively parallel potential of chemical systems.…”

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Towards heterotic computing with droplets in a fully automated droplet-maker platform

Henson

Gutiérrez

Hinkley

et al. 2015

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. A.

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The control and prediction of complex chemical systems is a difficult problem due to the nature of the interactions, transformations and processes occurring. From self-assembly to catalysis and self-organization, complex chemical systems are often heterogeneous mixtures that at the most extreme exhibit system-level functions, such as those that could be observed in a living cell. In this paper, we outline an approach to understand and explore complex chemical systems using an automated droplet maker to control the composition, size and position of the droplets in a predefined chemical environment. By investigating the spatio-temporal dynamics of the droplets, the aim is to understand how to control system-level emergence of complex chemical behaviour and even view the system-level behaviour as a programmable entity capable of information processing. Herein, we explore how our automated droplet-maker platform could be viewed as a prototype chemical heterotic computer with some initial data and example problems that may be viewed as potential chemically embodied computations.

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“…It is in this context that unconventional methods of computing based on nonlinear differential equations have been proposed as a new direction of research with unsuspected applications [6]. For instance, the properties of photosensitive chemical media has allowed to implement complex tasks such as, controlling mobile robot [7][8][9], image skeletonisation [10] or extraction of individual components of an image where components overlap [11]. In fact, the efficiency of these reaction-diffusion media comes both from their highly parallel architecture and their nonlinear properties inherited from natural systems.…”

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On some applications of diffusion processes for image processing

Morfu

2009

Physics Letters A

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Cited by 43 publications

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Electrical Properties of Solvated Tectomers: Toward Zettascale Computing

Electrical Properties of Solvated Tectomers: Toward Zettascale Computing

Towards heterotic computing with droplets in a fully automated droplet-maker platform

On some applications of diffusion processes for image processing

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