Slime mold microfluidic logical gates
- We demonstrate how logical operations can be implemented in ensembles of protoplasmic tubes of acellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum. The tactile response of the protoplasmic tubes is used to actuate analogs of two- and four-input logical gates and memory devices. The slime mold tube logical gates display results of logical operations by blocking flow in mechanically stimulated tube fragmentsWe demonstrate how logical operations can be implemented in ensembles of protoplasmic tubes of acellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum. The tactile response of the protoplasmic tubes is used to actuate analogs of two- and four-input logical gates and memory devices. The slime mold tube logical gates display results of logical operations by blocking flow in mechanically stimulated tube fragments and redirecting the flow to output tube fragments. We demonstrate how XOR and NOR gates are constructed. We also exemplify circuits of hybrid gates and a memory device. The slime mold based gates are non-electronic, simple and inexpensive, and several gates can be realized simultaneously at sites where protoplasmic tubes merge.…
| Document Type: | Article |
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| Author: | Andrew Adamatzky, Theresa Schubert |
| DOI (Cite-Link): | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.mattod.2014.01.018Cite-Link |
| URN (Cite-Link): | https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:gbv:wim2-20170413-31168Cite-Link |
| Parent Title (English): | Materials Today |
| Language: | English |
| Date of Publication (online): | 2017/04/13 |
| Year of first Publication: | 2014 |
| Release Date: | 2017/04/13 |
| Publishing Institution: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
| Institutes and partner institutions: | Bauhaus-Universität Weimar / In Zusammenarbeit mit der Bauhaus-Universität Weimar |
| First Page: | 86 |
| Last Page: | 91 |
| Tag: | protoplasmic tubes, Nucleolus-Organisator-Region |
| GND Keyword: | Physarum polycephalum |
| Dewey Decimal Classification: | 500 Naturwissenschaften und Mathematik / 570 Biowissenschaften; Biologie |
| BKL-Classification: | 42 Biologie / 42.48 Kryptogamen |
| Licence (German): |  Creative Commons 4.0 - Namensnennung-Nicht kommerziell-Keine Bearbeitung (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) |