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On emulation of flueric devices in excitable chemical medium

Adamatzky, Andrew

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Flueric devices are fluidic devices without moving parts. Fluidic devices use fluid as a medium for information transfer and computation. A Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) medium is a thin-layer spatially extended excitable chemical medium which exhibits travelling excitation wave-fronts. The excitation wave-fronts transfer information. Flueric devices compute via jets interaction. BZ devices compute via excitation wave-fronts interaction. In numerical model of BZ medium we show that functions of key flueric devices are implemented in the excitable chemical system: signal generator, AND, XOR, NOT and NOR Boolean gates, delay elements, diodes and sensors. Flueric devices have been widely used in industry since late 1960s and are still employed in automotive and aircraft technologies. Implementation of analog of the flueric devices in the excitable chemical systems opens doors to further applications of excitation wave-based unconventional computing in soft robotics, embedded organic electronics and living technologies.

Journal Article Type Article
Acceptance Date Nov 29, 2016
Online Publication Date Dec 20, 2016
Publication Date Dec 20, 2016
Deposit Date Feb 2, 2017
Publicly Available Date Feb 2, 2017
Journal PLoS ONE
Electronic ISSN 1932-6203
Publisher Public Library of Science
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 11
Issue 12
Article Number e0168267
DOI https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168267
Keywords emulation, flueric, devices, excitable, chemical, medium
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/904505
Publisher URL http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0168267
Contract Date Feb 2, 2017

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