On architectures of circuits implemented in simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets

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

doi:10.1016/j.biosystems.2011.12.007

On architectures of circuits implemented in simulated Belousov-Zhabotinsky droplets

Biosystems. 2012 Jul;109(1):72-7. doi: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2011.12.007. Epub 2012 Jan 12.

Authors

Andrew Adamatzky¹, Julian Holley, Peter Dittrich, Jerzy Gorecki, Ben De Lacy Costello, Klaus-Peter Zauner, Larry Bull

Affiliation

¹ University of the West of England, Bristol, United Kingdom.

PMID: 22261640
DOI: 10.1016/j.biosystems.2011.12.007

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.

MeSH terms

Computer Simulation
Computer Systems*
Computers, Molecular / trends*
Logic*
Thermodynamics
Transport Vesicles / metabolism*