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On architectures of circuits implemented in simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets

Adamatzky, Andrew; Holley, Julian; Dittrich, Peter; Gorecki, Jerzy; De Lacy Costello, Ben; Zauner, Klaus Peter; Bull, Larry

Authors

Julian Holley

Peter Dittrich

Jerzy Gorecki

Klaus Peter Zauner

Lawrence Bull Larry.Bull@uwe.ac.uk
School Director (Research & Enterprise) and Professor



Abstract

When lipid vesicles filled with Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) excitable chemical medium are packed in tight assembles, waves of excitation may travel between the vesicles. When several waves meet in a vesicle some fragments may deflect, others can annihilate or continue their travel undisturbed. By interpreting waves as Boolean values we can construct logical gates and assemble them in large circuits. In numerical modelling we show two architectures of one-bit half-adders implemented in BZ-vesicles. © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd.

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Jul 1, 2012
Journal BioSystems
Print ISSN 0303-2647
Publisher Elsevier
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 109
Issue 1
Pages 72-77
DOI https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2011.12.007
Keywords wave fragments, waves, systems, biology, Adders, chemical reaction, mathematical and computational mathematics, computtational biology, Belousov–Zhabotinsky, unconventional computation
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/945574
Publisher URL http://www.elsevier.com