Polymerization‐Induced Self‐Assembly for Artificial Biology: Opportunities and Challenges

G Cheng, J Pérez‐Mercader - Macromolecular Rapid …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
The study of the origin of life and current undergoing efforts to produce artificial chemical
systems mimicking the behavior of natural living systems have emerged as a hot topic at the …

Chemical communication and dynamics of droplet emulsions in networks of Belousov–Zhabotinsky micro-oscillators produced by microfluidics

K Torbensen, F Rossi, S Ristori, A Abou-Hassan - Lab on a Chip, 2017 - pubs.rsc.org
Chemical communication leading to synchronization and collective behaviour of dynamic
elements, such as cell colonies, is a widespread phenomenon with biological, physical and …

Synchronization scenarios induced by delayed communication in arrays of diffusively coupled autonomous chemical oscillators

MA Budroni, G Pagano, D Conte… - Physical Chemistry …, 2021 - pubs.rsc.org
We study the impact of delayed feedbacks in the collective synchronization of ensembles of
identical and autonomous micro-oscillators. To this aim, we consider linear arrays of …

Membrane structure drives synchronization patterns in arrays of diffusively coupled self-oscillating droplets

MA Budroni, K Torbensen, S Ristori… - The Journal of …, 2020 - ACS Publications
Networks of diffusively coupled inorganic oscillators, confined in nano-and
microcompartments, are effective for predicting and understanding the global dynamics of …

Multiscale Approach for Tuning Communication among Chemical Oscillators Confined in Biomimetic Microcompartments

F Rossi, S Ristori, A Abou-Hassan - Accounts of Chemical …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Inspired by the biological world, new cross-border disciplines and technologies
have emerged. Relevant examples include systems chemistry, which offers a bottom-up …

Chemical micro-oscillators based on the Belousov–Zhabotinsky reaction

IL Mallphanov, VK Vanag - Russian Chemical Reviews, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
The results of studies on the development of micro-oscillators (MOs) based on the Belousov–
Zhabotinsky (BZ) oscillatory chemical reaction are integrated and systematized. The …

Emergent bioanalogous properties of blockchain-based distributed systems

O Abramov, KL Bebell, SJ Mojzsis - Origins of Life and Evolution of …, 2021 - Springer
We apply a novel definition of biological systems to a series of reproducible observations on
a blockchain-based distributed virtual machine (dVM). We find that such blockchain-based …

Tuning the chemical communication of oscillating microdroplets by means of membrane composition

K Torbensen, S Ristori, F Rossi… - The Journal of Physical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
Synchronization of dynamic elements via chemical communication is a widespread
phenomenon in nature and, hence, in many scientific fields, such as in biology, physics and …

Towards functional droplet architectures: A belousov-zhabotinsky medium for networks

KM Chang, MRR de Planque, KP Zauner - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
The confluence of droplet-compartmentalised chemical systems and architectures
composed of interacting droplets points towards a novel technology mimicking core features …

Dynamics of a 1D array of inhibitory coupled chemical oscillators in microdroplets with global negative feedback

IS Proskurkin, VK Vanag - Physical Chemistry Chemical Physics, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
We have investigated the effect of global negative feedback (GNF) on the dynamics of a 1D
array of water microdroplets (MDs) filled with the reagents of the photosensitive oscillatory …