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Spontaneous and driven growth of multicellular lipid compartments to millimeter size from porous polymer structures** (2022)
Journal Article
Nomura, S. M., Shimizu, R., Archer, R. J., Hayase, G., Toyota, T., Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Spontaneous and driven growth of multicellular lipid compartments to millimeter size from porous polymer structures**. ChemSystemsChem, 4(5), https://doi.org/10.1002/syst.202200006

This report describes a method to obtain multicellular shaped compartments made by lipids growing from a sponge-like porous structure. Each compartment is several tens of micrometers in diameter and separated by membranes comprised of phospholipid an... Read More about Spontaneous and driven growth of multicellular lipid compartments to millimeter size from porous polymer structures**.

Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity (2022)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A. (2022). Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity. Royal Society Open Science, 9(4), 211926. https://doi.org/10.1098/rsos.211926

Fungi exhibit oscillations of extracellular electrical potential recorded via differential electrodes inserted into a substrate colonized by mycelium or directly into sporocarps. We analysed electrical activity of ghost fungi (Omphalotus nidiformis),... Read More about Language of fungi derived from their electrical spiking activity.

Chlorella sensors in liquid marbles and droplets (2022)
Journal Article
Phillips, N., Mayne, R., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Chlorella sensors in liquid marbles and droplets. Sensing and Bio-Sensing Research, 36, Article 100491. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.sbsr.2022.100491

The use of live organisms in electrically-coupled sensing devices has been suggested as an alternative low-cost, low-environmental footprint and robust technology for continuous monitoring and sensing applications. The utility of Chlorella vulgaris a... Read More about Chlorella sensors in liquid marbles and droplets.

Marimo actuated rover systems (2022)
Journal Article
Phillips, N., Draper, T. C., Mayne, R., Reynolds, D. M., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Marimo actuated rover systems. Journal of Biological Engineering, 16(1), Article 3. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13036-021-00279-0

Background: The potential to directly harness photosynthesis to make actuators, biosensors and bioprocessors has been previously demonstrated in the literature. Herein, this capability has been expanded to more advanced systems — Marimo Actuated Rove... Read More about Marimo actuated rover systems.

Electrical spiking of psilocybin fungi (2022)
Journal Article
Gandia, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Electrical spiking of psilocybin fungi. Communicative and Integrative Biology, 15(1), 226-231. https://doi.org/10.1080/19420889.2022.2136118

Psilocybin fungi, aka “magic” mushrooms, are well known for inducing colorful and visionary states of mind. Such psychoactive properties and the ease of cultivating their basidiocarps within low-tech setups make psilocybin fungi promising pharmacolog... Read More about Electrical spiking of psilocybin fungi.

Fungal electronics (2021)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A., Ayres, P., Beasley, A. E., Chiolerio, A., Dehshibi, M. M., Gandia, A., …Wösten, H. A. (2022). Fungal electronics. BioSystems, 212, Article 104588. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2021.104588

Fungal electronics is a family of living electronic devices made of mycelium bound composites or pure mycelium. Fungal electronic devices are capable of changing their impedance and generating spikes of electrical potential in response to external co... Read More about Fungal electronics.

Fungal architectures (2021)
Exhibition / Performance
Nikolaidou, A., Adamatzky, A., Phillips, N., Roberts, N., & Petrova, I. Fungal architectures. [Installations, Prints]. 13 December 2021 - 19 December 2021. (Unpublished)

"Fungal architectures" arts exhibition presents works inspired by protocognition of fungi and slime moulds and fungal materials. Fungal Architectures is a new cross-disciplinary research project that seeks to develop a fully integrated structural and... Read More about Fungal architectures.

Evolutionary algorithms designing nanoparticle cancer treatments with multiple particle types (2021)
Journal Article
Tsompanas, M. A., Bull, L., Adamatzky, A., & Balaz, I. (2021). Evolutionary algorithms designing nanoparticle cancer treatments with multiple particle types. IEEE Computational Intelligence Magazine, 16(4), 85-99. https://doi.org/10.1109/MCI.2021.3108306

There is a rich history of evolutionary algorithms tackling optimization problems where the most appropriate size of solutions, namely the genome length, is unclear a priori. Here, we investigated the applicability of this methodology on the problem... Read More about Evolutionary algorithms designing nanoparticle cancer treatments with multiple particle types.

Mem-fractive properties of mushrooms (2021)
Journal Article
Beasley, A. E., Abdelouahab, M. S., Lozi, R., Tsompanas, M. A., Powell, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Mem-fractive properties of mushrooms. Bioinspiration and Biomimetics, 16(6), Article 066026. https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-3190/ac2e0c

Memristors close the loop for I-V characteristics of the traditional, passive, semi-conductor devices. A memristor is a physical realisation of the material implication and thus is a universal logical element. Memristors are getting particular intere... Read More about Mem-fractive properties of mushrooms.

Evolutionary computational platform for the automatic discovery of nanocarriers for cancer treatment (2021)
Journal Article
Stillman, N. R., Balaz, I., Tsompanas, M. A., Kovacevic, M., Azimi, S., Lafond, S., …Hauert, S. (2021). Evolutionary computational platform for the automatic discovery of nanocarriers for cancer treatment. npj Computational Materials, 7(1), Article 150. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41524-021-00614-5

We present the EVONANO platform for the evolution of nanomedicines with application to anti-cancer treatments. Our work aims to decrease both the time and cost required to develop nanoparticle designs. EVONANO includes a simulator to grow tumours, ex... Read More about Evolutionary computational platform for the automatic discovery of nanocarriers for cancer treatment.