On computing in fine-grained compartmentalised Belousov-Zhabotinsky medium

被引：18

作者：

Adamatzky, Andrew ^{[1
]}

Holley, Julian ^{[1
]}

Bull, Larry ^{[1
]}

Costello, Ben De Lacy ^{[1
]}

机构：

[1] Univ W England, Bristol BS16 1QY, Avon, England

来源：

CHAOS SOLITONS & FRACTALS | 2011年 / 44卷 / 10期

关键词：

BINARY COLLISIONS; WAVE-FRAGMENTS; OPERATIONS; PROPAGATION; PATTERNS; PULSES;

D O I：

10.1016/j.chaos.2011.03.010

中图分类号：

O1 [数学];

学科分类号：

0701 ; 070101 ;

摘要：

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. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

引用

页码：779 / 790

页数：12

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