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On resistance switching and oscillations in tubulin microtubule droplets

Emerging Technologies 2021-05-12 v1

Abstract

We study electrical properties of Taxol-stabilised microtubule (MT) ensembles in a droplet of water. We demonstrate that the MT droplets act as electrical switches. Also, a stimulation of a MT droplet with a positive fast impulse causes oscillation of the droplet's resistance. The findings will pave a way towards future designs of MT-based sensing and computing devices, including data storage and featuring liquid state.

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@article{arxiv.1907.07356,
  title  = {On resistance switching and oscillations in tubulin microtubule droplets},
  author = {Alessandro Chiolerio and Thomas C. Draper and Richard Mayne and Andrew Adamatzky},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1907.07356},
  year   = {2021}
}