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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

On fault-tolerant Boolean functions in proteinoids–ZnO colloids (2025)
Journal Article

This study investigates the computational properties of ZnO colloids in combination with proteinoid microspheres within an unconventional computing framework. We propose a method for creating flexible and fault-tolerant logic gates utilising this col... Read More about On fault-tolerant Boolean functions in proteinoids–ZnO colloids.

Recurrence resonance and 1/f noise in neurons under quantum conditions and their manifestations in proteinoid microspheres (2025)
Journal Article

Recurrence resonance (RR), in which external noise is utilized to enhance the behaviour of hidden attractors in a system, is a phenomenon often observed in biological systems and is expected to adjust between chaos and order to increase computational... Read More about Recurrence resonance and 1/f noise in neurons under quantum conditions and their manifestations in proteinoid microspheres.

Proton pump inhibitor omeprazole alters the spiking characteristics of proteinoids (2025)
Journal Article

This study reveals the significant effect of the proton pump inhibitor omeprazole on the spiking behavior of proteinoids, leading to a transformative shift in the field of unconventional computing. Through the application of different concentrations... Read More about Proton pump inhibitor omeprazole alters the spiking characteristics of proteinoids.

Morphological and electrical properties of proteinoid−actin networks (2025)
Journal Article

Proteinoids, or thermal proteins, are produced by heating amino acids. Proteinoids form hollow microspheres in water. The microspheres produce oscillation of electrical potential. Actin is a filament-forming protein responsible for communication, inf... Read More about Morphological and electrical properties of proteinoid−actin networks.