Molecular communication: Harnessing biochemical materials to engineer biomimetic communication systems

Information Rates of Active Propagation in Microchannel Molecular Communication

“…Molecular communication [1] is a new field of communication where instead of electric currents or electromagnetic waves, patterns of molecules are used to transfer information from a source (transmitter) to a destination (receiver). In this paper, we consider propagation media that are confined fluid environments with small dimensions in the order of micrometers, known as a microchannel.…”

Bacterial Relay for Energy-Efficient Molecular Communications

“…Similar to mechanical relaying, chemotaxis in biological systems perform similar functions in the context of molecular communications by picking up information macro molecules (i.e., plasmids) and delivering them to a receiver [20], [21]. A key advantage of such systems is that the information molecules can be protected in bacteria from chemical degradation and predation from the environment [22]. For example, E. coli bacteria carries information and moves in accordance to a biased random walk in response of a chemical stimulus from the receiver [23].…”

Engineering Applications of Biomolecular Motors

“…Similarly, active transport enabled by molecular motors may be exploited for the delivery of molecular messages, enabling a new communication paradigm in engineering (113) path of herpes viruses, which hijack dyneins to travel from their axonal entry point into the cell to the nucleus, represents the delivery of a potent molecular signal (114).…”