Active matter logic for autonomous microfluidics
Chemically or optically powered active matter plays an increasingly important role in materials design, but its computational potential has yet to be explored systematically. The competition between energy consumption and dissipation imposes stringent physical constraints on the information transpor...
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| author | Woodhouse, Francis G. Dunkel, Joern |
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| description | Chemically or optically powered active matter plays an increasingly important role in materials design, but its computational potential has yet to be explored systematically. The competition between energy consumption and dissipation imposes stringent physical constraints on the information transport in active flow networks, facilitating global optimization strategies that are not well understood. Here, we combine insights from recent
microbial experiments with concepts from lattice-field theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to introduce a generic theoretical framework for active matter logic. Highlighting conceptual differences with classical and quantum computation, we demonstrate how the inherent non-locality of incompressible active flow networks can be utilized to construct universal logical operations, Fredkin gates and memory storage in set–reset latches through the synchronized self-organization of many individual network components. Our work lays the conceptual foundation for developing autonomous microfluidic transport devices driven by bacterial fluids, active liquid crystals or chemically engineered motile colloids. |
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| spelling | mit-1721.1/1100542022-10-03T08:34:16Z Active matter logic for autonomous microfluidics Woodhouse, Francis G. Dunkel, Joern Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics Dunkel, Joern Chemically or optically powered active matter plays an increasingly important role in materials design, but its computational potential has yet to be explored systematically. The competition between energy consumption and dissipation imposes stringent physical constraints on the information transport in active flow networks, facilitating global optimization strategies that are not well understood. Here, we combine insights from recent microbial experiments with concepts from lattice-field theory and non-equilibrium statistical mechanics to introduce a generic theoretical framework for active matter logic. Highlighting conceptual differences with classical and quantum computation, we demonstrate how the inherent non-locality of incompressible active flow networks can be utilized to construct universal logical operations, Fredkin gates and memory storage in set–reset latches through the synchronized self-organization of many individual network components. Our work lays the conceptual foundation for developing autonomous microfluidic transport devices driven by bacterial fluids, active liquid crystals or chemically engineered motile colloids. Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Fellowship Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Mathematics (Edmund F. Kelly Research Award) National Science Foundation (U.S.) (Award CBET-1510768) 2017-06-20T15:17:11Z 2017-06-20T15:17:11Z 207-04 2016-11 Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2041-1723 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/110054 Woodhouse, Francis G., and J?rn Dunkel. “Active Matter Logic for Autonomous Microfluidics.” Nature Communications 8 (2017): 15169. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8865-2369 en_US http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/ncomms15169 Nature Communications Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ application/pdf Nature Publishing Group Nature |
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| title | Active matter logic for autonomous microfluidics |
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