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Spiking neurons derived from proteinoid and Bacteriorhodopsin (2025)
Journal Article

We investigate proteinoid-bacteriorhodopsin complexes as biomolecular spiking neurons for neuromorphic computing applications. Our system shows strong photoresponsive behavior through the integration of bacteriorhodopsin with self-assembled proteinoi... Read More about Spiking neurons derived from proteinoid and Bacteriorhodopsin.

Blockage of action potential-like spiking in D2O-suspended proteinoid microspheres (2025)
Journal Article

This study investigates the effects of heavy water (D 2 O) on action potential-like electrical activity in proteinoid microspheres. We demonstrate that D 2 O completely suppresses spontaneous electrical spiking, contrasting with the robust spiking pa... Read More about Blockage of action potential-like spiking in D2O-suspended proteinoid microspheres.

Scale-dependent analysis of structure and electrical activity in kombucha mats and proteinoid-actin assemblies (2025)
Journal Article

This study examines, in detail, the scale-dependent properties and activity patterns in two systems: kombucha cultures and proteinoid-actin networks. These systems have complex features. Our analysis shows that their self-similarity may not be a true... Read More about Scale-dependent analysis of structure and electrical activity in kombucha mats and proteinoid-actin assemblies.

Optimizing the substrate for hypercube-based neuroevolution of augmented topologies to design soft actuators (2025)
Journal Article

The characteristics of soft robots make them better candidates for applications such as healthcare, due to their enhanced safety, adaptability and more natural human-robot interaction compared to traditional counterparts. Different actuating systems... Read More about Optimizing the substrate for hypercube-based neuroevolution of augmented topologies to design soft actuators.

Ecosystem-based reservoir computing. Hypothesis paper (2025)
Journal Article

Reservoir computing (RC) has emerged as a powerful computational paradigm, leveraging the intrinsic dynamics of complex systems to process temporal data efficiently. Here we propose to extend RC into ecological domains, where the e... Read More about Ecosystem-based reservoir computing. Hypothesis paper.

Designing morphologies of soft medical devices using cooperative neuro coevolution (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Soft robots have proven to outperform traditional robots in applications related to propagation in geometrically constrained environments. Designing these robots and their controllers is an intricate task, since their building materials exhibit non-l... Read More about Designing morphologies of soft medical devices using cooperative neuro coevolution.

Biohybrid computing with proteinoids and algae (2025)
Journal Article

Proteinoids, or thermal proteinoids, are produced by heating amino-acids. When placed in water, proteinoids swell into microspheres which produce neuron-like spikes of electrical potential. This study combines proteinoid microspheres with Emiliania h... Read More about Biohybrid computing with proteinoids and algae.

Polymorphism in Glu-Phe-Asp Proteinoids (2025)
Journal Article

Glu-Phe-Asp (GFD) proteinoids represent a class of synthetic polypeptides capable of self-assembling into microspheres, fibres, or combinations thereof, with morphology dramatically influencing their electrical properties. Extended recordings and det... Read More about Polymorphism in Glu-Phe-Asp Proteinoids.

Modulation of proteinoid electrical spiking activity with magnetic nanoparticles (2025)
Journal Article

This study looks at how proteinoid microspheres and their magnetic polystyrene (PS) hybrids behave electrochemically. It also explores their computational abilities. These systems show complex membrane potential dynamics. Pure proteinoids spike witho... Read More about Modulation of proteinoid electrical spiking activity with magnetic nanoparticles.

Bio-inspired cryptography based on proteinoid assemblies (2025)
Journal Article

We present an innovative cryptographic technique inspired by the self-assembly processes of proteinoids—thermally stable proteins that form spontaneously under prebiotic conditions. By emulating the deterministic yet complex interactions within prote... Read More about Bio-inspired cryptography based on proteinoid assemblies.

Living kombucha electronics with proteinoids (2025)
Journal Article

The work introduces a composite material that combines Kombucha cellulose mats with synthetic thermal proteinoids to create electroactive biofilms, capable for sensing and computation. The synthesis of proteinoids involves heating amino acid mixtures... Read More about Living kombucha electronics with proteinoids.

Self-organizing proteinoid–actin networks: Structure and voltage dynamics (2025)
Journal Article

Proteinoids are thermal proteins produced by heating amino acids to their melting point and initiation of polymerization to produce polymeric chains. Proteinoids swell in aqueous solution forming hollow microspheres, usually filled with aqueous solut... Read More about Self-organizing proteinoid–actin networks: Structure and voltage dynamics.

Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse (2025)
Journal Article

Regular light–dark cycles greatly affect organisms, and events like eclipses induce distinctive physiological and behavioural shifts. While well documented in animals, plant behaviour during eclipses remains largely unexplored. Here, we monitored mul... Read More about Bioelectrical synchronization of Picea abies during a solar eclipse.

Thermal colloid programming (2025)
Journal Article

This paper investigates the computational capabilities of colloidal systems, focusing on the integration of Boolean logic operations within gold nanoparticle suspensions under varying temperature conditions. As climate change, artificial intelligence... Read More about Thermal colloid programming.

Liquid ferrofluid synapses for spike-based neuromorphic learning (2025)
Journal Article

Solid-state memory devices have emerged as promising synapses for neuromorphic engineering and computing. However, features such as limited endurance, static sensitivity, and lower ON/OFF ratios, as well as the need for peculiar conditions including... Read More about Liquid ferrofluid synapses for spike-based neuromorphic learning.

An integrated approach to mitigate poisoning attacks in federated learning frameworks (2025)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

While Federated learning (FL) is considered privacy-preserving by nature, it remains vulnerable to many attacks, such as data and model poisoning, that compromise data integrity and model accuracy. Conventional privacy-preserving federated learning (... Read More about An integrated approach to mitigate poisoning attacks in federated learning frameworks.

Post-apocalyptic computing and technology towards computing from natural colloids and micro-fragments (2025)
Book Chapter

Having established a solid software and hardware protocol to perform microwave impedance spectroscopy of substances in the liquid state, we discuss some numerical and practical aspects of the key figures related to this technique, and highlight the p... Read More about Post-apocalyptic computing and technology towards computing from natural colloids and micro-fragments.

Sustainable reservoir computing with liquid egg albumen (2025)
Journal Article

While physical reservoir computing offers a promising approach for efficient information processing, identifying suitable substrates remains challenging. Here, we demonstrated that colloidal albumen proteins could function as an effective physical re... Read More about Sustainable reservoir computing with liquid egg albumen.

On the response of proteinoid ensembles to Fibonacci sequences (2025)
Journal Article

This work investigates the integration of Fibonacci patterns and Golden Ratio principles into proteinoid-based systems, connecting fundamental mathematical concepts with contemporary biomimetic approaches. Proteinoids are thermal proteins that can se... Read More about On the response of proteinoid ensembles to Fibonacci sequences.

Bioelectrical oscillations and scaling behaviour of sea mud (2025)
Journal Article

This study uses a systematic approach to examine the bioelectric dynamics of marine sediments. We used an eight-channel recording system to measure bioelectric potentials. It had Pt/Ir electrodes and high-precision data acquisition (1 Hz sampling, 24... Read More about Bioelectrical oscillations and scaling behaviour of sea mud.