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Electrical potential spiking of Kombucha zoogleal mats: A symbiotic community of bacteria and yeasts (2022)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A. (2023). Electrical potential spiking of Kombucha zoogleal mats: A symbiotic community of bacteria and yeasts. Bioelectricity, 5(2), 99-108. https://doi.org/10.1089/bioe.2022.0030

Background: A kombucha is a sugared tea fermented by a symbiotic community of over 20 species of bacteria and yeasts. The community produces and inhabits cellulosic gelatinous zoogleal mats. Methods: We studied electrical activity of the kombucha mat... Read More about Electrical potential spiking of Kombucha zoogleal mats: A symbiotic community of bacteria and yeasts.

Logics in fungal Mycelium networks (2022)
Journal Article
Adamatzky, A., Ayres, P., Beasley, A. E., Roberts, N., & Wösten, H. A. B. (2022). Logics in fungal Mycelium networks. Logica Universalis, 16(4), 655-669. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11787-022-00318-4

The living mycelium networks are capable of efficient sensorial fusion over very large areas and distributed decision making. The information processing in the mycelium networks is implemented via propagation of electrical and chemical signals en pai... Read More about Logics in fungal Mycelium networks.

Electrical frequency discrimination by fungi Pleurotus ostreatus (2022)
Journal Article
Przyczyna, D., Szacilowski, K., Chiolerio, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Electrical frequency discrimination by fungi Pleurotus ostreatus. BioSystems, 222, 104797. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biosystems.2022.104797

We stimulate mycelian networks of oyster fungi Pleurotus ostreatus with low frequency sinusoidal electrical signals. We demonstrate that the fungal networks can discriminate between frequencies in a fuzzy or threshold based manner. Details about the... Read More about Electrical frequency discrimination by fungi Pleurotus ostreatus.

Conventional non-computing and unconventional musical signal processing (2022)
Book Chapter
Baracskai, Z. (2022). Conventional non-computing and unconventional musical signal processing. In A. Adamatzky (Ed.), Unconventional Computing, Arts, Philosophy (339-365). World Scientific Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1142/9789811257155_0020

As the scepsis maintains its lead in scientific enquiry giving birth to unconventional computing, one must poke at the newborn as well. By manipulating the terms convention and computing, challenges are posed to their meaning in the contemporary cont... Read More about Conventional non-computing and unconventional musical signal processing.

Chimera states in neuro-inspired area-efficient asynchronous cellular automata networks (2022)
Journal Article
Tsakalos, K., Dragkola, P., Karamani, R., Tsompanas, M., Provata, A., Dimitrakis, P., …Sirakoulis, G. C. (2022). Chimera states in neuro-inspired area-efficient asynchronous cellular automata networks. IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 69(10), 4128-4140. https://doi.org/10.1109/TCSI.2022.3187376

Synchronization transition in neuromorphic networks has attracted much attention recently as a fundamental property of biological neural networks, which relies on network connectivity along with different synaptic features. In this work, an area-opti... Read More about Chimera states in neuro-inspired area-efficient asynchronous cellular automata networks.

Mining logical circuits in fungi (2022)
Journal Article
Roberts, N., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Mining logical circuits in fungi. Scientific Reports, 12(1), 15930. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-022-20080-3

Living substrates are capable for nontrivial mappings of electrical signals due to the substrate nonlinear electrical characteristics. This property can be used to realise Boolean functions. Input logical values are represented by amplitude or freque... Read More about Mining logical circuits in fungi.

Rethinking living matter: Animate behaviours of fungal composites (2022)
Presentation / Conference
Nikolaidou, A., & Adamatzky, A. (2022, September). Rethinking living matter: Animate behaviours of fungal composites. Paper presented at SEEDS International Conference 2022, University of West of England, Bristol

Smart materials integrating conventional soft electronics e.g. sensors and actuators, are widely used in the building and wearable industries, contributing to the depletion of natural resources and having a vast environmental impact. In this paper, a... Read More about Rethinking living matter: Animate behaviours of fungal composites.

Molecular collective response and dynamical symmetry properties in biopotentials of superior plants: Experimental observations and quantum field theory modeling (2022)
Journal Article
Chiolerio, A., Dehshibi, M. M., Vitiello, G., & Adamatzky, A. (2022). Molecular collective response and dynamical symmetry properties in biopotentials of superior plants: Experimental observations and quantum field theory modeling. Symmetry, 14(9), e1792. https://doi.org/10.3390/sym14091792

Trees employ impulses of electrical activity to coordinate actions of their bodies and long-distance communication. There are indications that the vascular system might act as a network of pathways for traveling electrical impulses. A question arises... Read More about Molecular collective response and dynamical symmetry properties in biopotentials of superior plants: Experimental observations and quantum field theory modeling.

Neuromorphic liquids, colloids and gels: A review (2022)
Journal Article
Raeisi Kheirabadi, N. R., Chiolerio, A., Szacilowski, K., & Adamatzky, A. (in press). Neuromorphic liquids, colloids and gels: A review. ChemPhysChem, https://doi.org/10.1002/cphc.202200390

Advances in flexible electronic devices and robotic software require that sensors and controllers be virtually devoid of traditional electronic components, be deformable and stretch-resistant. Liquid electronic devices that mimic biological synapses... Read More about Neuromorphic liquids, colloids and gels: A review.

A haploid-diploid evolutionary algorithm optimizing nanoparticle based cancer treatments (2022)
Book Chapter
Tsompanas, M., Bull, L., Adamatzky, A., & Balaz, I. (2022). A haploid-diploid evolutionary algorithm optimizing nanoparticle based cancer treatments. In I. Balaz, & A. Adamatzky (Eds.), Cancer, Complexity, Computation (237-251). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-04379-6_10

This paper uses a recent explanation for the fundamental haploid-diploid lifecycle of eukaryotic organisms to present a new evolutionary algorithm that differs from all previous known work using diploid representations. A form of the Baldwin effect h... Read More about A haploid-diploid evolutionary algorithm optimizing nanoparticle based cancer treatments.

Chemical Wave Computing from Labware to Electrical Systems (2022)
Journal Article
Chatzinikolaou, T. P., Fyrigos, I., Ntinas, V., Kitsios, S., Tsompanas, M., Bousoulas, P., …Sirakoulis, G. C. (2022). Chemical Wave Computing from Labware to Electrical Systems. Electronics, 11(11), Article 1683. https://doi.org/10.3390/electronics11111683

Unconventional and, specifically, wave computing has been repeatedly studied in laboratory based experiments by utilizing chemical systems like a thin film of Belousov–Zhabotinsky (BZ) reactions. Nonetheless, the principles demonstrated by this chemi... Read More about Chemical Wave Computing from Labware to Electrical Systems.

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.