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Functionalizing colloids with reactive DNA linkers is a versatile way of programming self-assembly. DNA selectivity provides direct control over colloid-colloid interactions allowing the engineering of structures such as complex crystals or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2019-02-26 Pritam Kumar Jana , Bortolo Matteo Mognetti

Synthetic nanomotors powered by chemical reactions have been designed to act as vehicles for active cargo transport, drug delivery as well as a variety of other uses. Collections of such motors, acting in consort, can self-assemble to form…

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Active particles driven by a chemical reaction are the subject of intense research to date due to their rich physics, being intrinsically far from equilibrium, and their multiple technological applications. Recent attention in the field is…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-10-02 Dolachai Boniface , Sergi G. Leyva , Ignacio Pagonabarraga , Pietro Tierno

Materials that respond to external stimuli by expanding or contracting provide a transduction route that integrates sensing and actuation powered directly by the stimuli. This motivates us to build colloidal scale robots using these…

Robotics · Computer Science 2020-12-18 Mayank Agrawal , Sharon C. Glotzer

Living systems contain intricate biochemical networks whose structure is closely related to their function and allows them to exhibit robust behavior in the presence of external stimuli. Such networks typically involve catalytic enzymes,…

Biological Physics · Physics 2025-10-27 Vincent Ouazan-Reboul , Ramin Golestanian , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo

We introduce a new method for transforming chemical systems into desired logical operators (e.g. NAND-gates) or similar signal-manipulation components. The method is based upon open-loop dynamic regulation, where external conditions such as…

Chemical Physics · Physics 2018-11-30 Matthew Egbert , Jean-Sebastien Gagnon , Juan Perez-Mercader

We propose that the behaviour of non-linear media can be controlled automatically through coevolutionary systems. By extension, forms of unconventional computing, i.e., massively parallel non-linear computers, can be realised by such an…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2012-12-13 Christopher Stone , Rita Toth , Ben de Lacy Costello , Larry Bull , Andrew Adamatzky

Exploiting the effects of quantum interference we put forward an idea of designing three primary logic gates, OR, AND and NOT, using a benzene molecule. Under a specific molecule-lead interface geometry, anti-resonant states appear which…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2018-09-19 Moumita Patra , Santanu K. Maiti

Enzymes are nano-scale machines that have evolved to drive chemical reactions out of equilibrium in the right place at the right time. Given the complexity and specificity of enzymatic function, bottom-up design of enzymes presents a…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2025-05-28 Michalis Chatzittofi , Jaime Agudo-Canalejo , Ramin Golestanian

Computing based on biochemical processes is a newest rapidly developing field of unconventional information and signal processing. In this paper we present results of our research in the field of biochemical computing and summarize the…

We introduce a new motif for constructing robust digital logic circuits using input/output chemical reaction networks. These chemical circuits robustly handle perturbations in input signals, initial concentrations, rate constants, and…

Emerging Technologies · Computer Science 2018-08-22 Samuel J. Ellis , Titus H. Klinge , James I. Lathrop

Cells accomplish diverse functions using the same molecular building blocks, from setting up cytoplasmic flows to generating mechanical forces. In particular, transitions between these non-equilibrium states are triggered by regulating the…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2022-01-03 Bibi Najma , Minu Varghese , Lev Tsidilkovski , Linnea Lemma , Aparna Baskaran , Guillaume Duclos

Here we propose four-terminal molecular devices as functional logic gates (AND, NOR and XOR, respectively). Such devices are composed of single organic molecule connected to gold electrodes and located in between gate terminals.…

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Chemical reaction engineering is key to industrial might and sustainable chemistry. This will be enabled using smart, efficient catalysts or catalysis ecosystems. This is possible with advanced artificial intelligence and machine learning…

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Self-driving labs (SDLs) combine fully automated experiments with artificial intelligence (AI) that decides the next set of experiments. Taken to their ultimate expression, SDLs could usher a new paradigm of scientific research, where the…

We advocate here the use of computational logic for systems biology, as a \emph{unified and safe} framework well suited for both modeling the dynamic behaviour of biological systems, expressing properties of them, and verifying these…

Quantitative Methods · Quantitative Biology 2020-10-07 Elisabetta de Maria , Joelle Despeyroux , Amy Felty , Pietro Liò , Carlos Olarte , Abdorrahim Bahrami

In living cells, molecular motors convert chemical energy into mechanical work. Its thermodynamic energy efficiency, i.e. the ratio of output mechanical work to input chemical energy, is usually high. However, using two-state models, we…

Biological Physics · Physics 2015-03-06 Yunxin Zhang

Chemically active colloids move by creating gradients in the composition of the surrounding solution and by exploiting the differences in their interactions with the various molecular species in solution. If such particles move near…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-02-24 M. N. Popescu , W. E. Uspal , S. Dietrich

Active colloids, also known as artificial microswimmers, are self-propelled micro and nanoparticles that convert uniform sources of fuel (e.g. chemical) or uniform external driving fields (e.g. magnetic or electric) into directed motion by…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2017-01-30 Songbo Ni , Emanuele Marini , Ivo Buttinoni , Heiko Wolf , Lucio Isa

Because of consuming energy to drive their motion, systems of active colloids are intrinsically out of equilibrium. In the past decade, a variety of intriguing dynamic patterns have been observed in systems of active colloids, and they…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2020-04-16 Zhan Ma , Mingcheng Yang , Ran Ni