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On computing in fine-grained compartmentalised Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium
Abstract
We introduce results of computer experiments on information processing in a hexagonal array of vesicles filled with Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) solution in a sub-excitable mode. We represent values of Boolean variables by excitation wave-fragments and implement basic logical gates by colliding the wave-fragments. We show that a vesicle filled with BZ mixture can implement a range of basic logical functions. We cascade BZ-vesicle logical gates into arithmetic circuits implementing addition of two one-bit binary numbers. We envisage that our theoretical results will be applied in chemical laboratory designs of massive-parallel computers based on fine-grained compartmentalisation of excitable chemical systems. © 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved- wave fragments, physics, mathematical, motion, chemical reaction, physics
- Centre for Research in Biosciences
- Unconventional Computing Group
- Bristol Robotics Laboratory
- Computer Science Research Centre
- wave fragments, physics, mathematical, motion, chemical reaction, physics
- Centre for Research in Biosciences
- Unconventional Computing Group
- Bristol Robotics Laboratory
- Computer Science Research Centre