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A reaction-diffusion cellular automata model for mycelium-based engineered living materials evolution (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Engineered living materials (ELMs) and, more specifically, mycelium-based ELMs have been proposed as a solution to address the escalating societal pressures related to human-induced environmental disruption, scarcity of resources, and the anticipated... Read More about A reaction-diffusion cellular automata model for mycelium-based engineered living materials evolution.

Mycelium-based ELM digital twin implemented in FPGA (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) based on fungal mycelium offer a promising solution to the challenges posed by environmental disruption, resource scarcity, and rising material demands, while also exhibiting interesting computational capabilities.... Read More about Mycelium-based ELM digital twin implemented in FPGA.

NeuroEvolution algorithms applied in the designing process of biohybrid actuators (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Soft robots diverge from traditional rigid robotics, offering unique advantages in adaptability, safety, and human-robot interaction. In some cases, soft robots can be powered by biohybrid actuators and the design process of these systems is far from... Read More about NeuroEvolution algorithms applied in the designing process of biohybrid actuators.

Mycelium-based ELM emulation utilizing memristive oscillating cellular automata (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

Engineered Living Materials (ELMs) represent a novel class of materials that possess intrinsic properties and capabilities inspired by living organisms. Among ELMs, fungal mycelium stands out due to its low-cost manufacturing process, ubiquity in nat... Read More about Mycelium-based ELM emulation utilizing memristive oscillating cellular automata.

Electrical signaling beyond neurons (2024)
Journal Article

Neural action potentials (APs) are difficult to interpret as signal encoders and/or computational primitives. Their relationships with stimuli and behaviors are obscured by the staggering complexity of nervous systems themselves. We can reduce this c... Read More about Electrical signaling beyond neurons.

Kombucha-chlorella-proteinoid biosynthetic classifiers of audio signals (2024)
Journal Article

This paper describes the development of a bioinspired composite material capable of audio classification applications. Hydrogel matrices produced by microorganisms combined with synthetic biology elements, allow for the development of adaptable bioel... Read More about Kombucha-chlorella-proteinoid biosynthetic classifiers of audio signals.

Computation implemented by the interaction of chemical reaction, clustering, and de-clustering of molecules (2024)
Journal Article

A chemical reaction and its reaction environment are intrinsically linked, especially within the confines of narrow cellular spaces. Traditional models of chemical reactions often use differential equations with concentration as the primary variable,... Read More about Computation implemented by the interaction of chemical reaction, clustering, and de-clustering of molecules.

Functionalizing the electrical properties of kombucha zoogleal mats for biosensing applications (2024)
Journal Article

Kombucha is a type of tea that is fermented using yeast and bacteria. During this process, a film made of cellulose is produced. This film has unique properties such as biodegradability, flexibility, shape conformability, and ability to self-grow, as... Read More about Functionalizing the electrical properties of kombucha zoogleal mats for biosensing applications.

Control of biohybrid actuators using neuroevolution (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution

In medical-related tasks, soft robots can perform better than conventional robots because of their compliant building materials and the movements they are able perform. However, designing soft robot controllers is not an easy task, due to the non-lin... Read More about Control of biohybrid actuators using neuroevolution.

Electrical signal transfer characteristics of mycelium-bound composites and fungal fruiting bodies (2024)
Journal Article

Mycelium-bound composites are normally made of discrete lignocellulosic substrate elements bound together by filamentous fungal hyphae. They can be formed into bespoke components of desired geometries by moulding or extrusion. Mycelium-bound composit... Read More about Electrical signal transfer characteristics of mycelium-bound composites and fungal fruiting bodies.

On effect of chloroform on electrical activity of proteinoids (2024)
Journal Article

Proteinoids, or thermal proteins, produce hollow microspheres in aqueous solutions. Ensembles of the microspheres produce endogenous spikes of electrical activity, similar to that of neurons. To make the first step toward the evaluation of the mechan... Read More about On effect of chloroform on electrical activity of proteinoids.

On transducing properties of kombucha−proteinoid complexes (2024)
Journal Article

We investigate the information processing capacities of kombucha−proteinoid proto−brains, focusing on the transducing properties through accommodation spiking, tonic bursting spiking, and optical and acoustic stimulation. We explore self-organization... Read More about On transducing properties of kombucha−proteinoid complexes.

Spike trains in PANI-proteinoid nanomaterials with different light pulse rates (2024)
Journal Article

Bio-inspired computing emulates the brain's information processing power in artificial architectures. We investigate the modification of emergent spike train dynamics in hybrid networks of polyaniline (PANI) nanomaterials hybridised with proteinoids... Read More about Spike trains in PANI-proteinoid nanomaterials with different light pulse rates.

Thermosensory spiking activity of proteinoid microspheres cross-linked by actin filaments (2024)
Journal Article

Actin, found in all eukaryotic cells as globular (G) or filamentous (F) actin, undergoes polymerization, with G-actin units changing shape to become F-actin. Thermal proteins, or proteinoids, are created by heating amino acids (160-200 °C), forming p... Read More about Thermosensory spiking activity of proteinoid microspheres cross-linked by actin filaments.

Electroactive composite biofilms integrating Kombucha, Chlorella and synthetic proteinoid Proto-Brains (2024)
Journal Article

In this study, we present electroactive biofilms made from a combination of Kombucha zoogleal mats and thermal proteinoids. These biofilms have potential applications in unconventional computing and robotic skin. Proteinoids are synthesized by therma... Read More about Electroactive composite biofilms integrating Kombucha, Chlorella and synthetic proteinoid Proto-Brains.

Logical circuits in colloids (2024)
Journal Article

Colloid-based computing devices offer remarkable fault tolerance and adaptability to varying environmental conditions due to their amorphous structure. An intriguing observation is that a colloidal suspension of ZnO nanoparticles in dimethylsulfoxide... Read More about Logical circuits in colloids.

Dynamics of excitation in F-actin: Automaton model (2024)
Book Chapter

We propose a model called the F-actin automaton, which represents a filamentous actin molecule as a graph of finite state machines. Each node in the graph can be in one of three states: resting, excited, or refractory. The states of all nodes are upd... Read More about Dynamics of excitation in F-actin: Automaton model.

Memfractance of proteinoids (2024)
Journal Article

Proteinoids, or thermal proteins, are amino acid polymers formed at high temperatures by nonbiological processes. The objective of this study is to examine the memfractance characteristics of proteinoids within a supersaturated hydroxyapatite solutio... Read More about Memfractance of proteinoids.

Proto–neural networks from thermal proteins (2024)
Journal Article

Proteinoids are synthetic polymers that have structural similarities to natural proteins, and their formation is achieved through the application of heat to amino acid combinations in a dehydrated environment. The thermal proteins, initially synthesi... Read More about Proto–neural networks from thermal proteins.

Proto-neurons from abiotic polypeptides (2024)
Journal Article

To understand the origins of life, we must first gain a grasp of the unresolved emergence of the first informational polymers and cell-like assemblies that developed into living systems. Heating amino acid mixtures to their boiling point produces the... Read More about Proto-neurons from abiotic polypeptides.