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Physarum wires: Self-growing self-repairing smart wires made from slime mould

Physarum wires: Self-growing self-repairing smart wires made from slime mould Biomed Eng Lett (2013) 3:232-241 DOI 10.1007/s13534-013-0108-9 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Physarum Wires: Self-growing Self-repairing Smart Wires Made from Slime Mould Andrew Adamatzky Received: 31 August 2013 / Revised: 18 November 2013 / Accepted: 10 December 2013 © The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering and Springer 2013 Abstract INTRODUCTION Purpose We report experimental laboratory studies on developing conductive pathways, or wires, using protoplasmic The plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum (Order Physarales, tubes of plasmodium of acellular slime mould Physarum class Myxomecetes, subclass Myxogastromycetidae) is a polycephalum. single cell, visible with the naked eye, with many diploid Methods Given two pins to be connected by a wire, we nuclei. The plasmodium feeds on bacteria and microscopic place a piece of slime mould on one pin and an attractant on food particles by endocytosis. When placed in an environment another pin. Physarum propagates towards the attract and thus with distributed sources of nutrients the plasmodium forms a connects the pins with a protoplasmic tube. A protoplasmic network of protoplasmic tubes connecting the food sources. tube is conductive, can survive substantial over-voltage and In 2000 Nakagaki et al. [1] showed that the topology of the can be used to transfer electrical current to http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Biomedical Engineering Letters Springer Journals

Physarum wires: Self-growing self-repairing smart wires made from slime mould

Adamatzky, Andrew
Biomedical Engineering Letters , Volume 3 (4) – Jan 12, 2014
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Copyright © 2013 by Korean Society of Medical and Biological Engineering and Springer
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Engineering; Biomedical Engineering; Biophysics and Biological Physics; Biomedicine general; Medical and Radiation Physics
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2093-9868
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10.1007/s13534-013-0108-9
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Biomed Eng Lett (2013) 3:232-241 DOI 10.1007/s13534-013-0108-9 ORIGINAL ARTICLE Physarum Wires: Self-growing Self-repairing Smart Wires Made from Slime Mould Andrew Adamatzky Received: 31 August 2013 / Revised: 18 November 2013 / Accepted: 10 December 2013 © The Korean Society of Medical & Biological Engineering and Springer 2013 Abstract INTRODUCTION Purpose We report experimental laboratory studies on developing conductive pathways, or wires, using protoplasmic The plasmodium of Physarum polycephalum (Order Physarales, tubes of plasmodium of acellular slime mould Physarum class Myxomecetes, subclass Myxogastromycetidae) is a polycephalum. single cell, visible with the naked eye, with many diploid Methods Given two pins to be connected by a wire, we nuclei. The plasmodium feeds on bacteria and microscopic place a piece of slime mould on one pin and an attractant on food particles by endocytosis. When placed in an environment another pin. Physarum propagates towards the attract and thus with distributed sources of nutrients the plasmodium forms a connects the pins with a protoplasmic tube. A protoplasmic network of protoplasmic tubes connecting the food sources. tube is conductive, can survive substantial over-voltage and In 2000 Nakagaki et al. [1] showed that the topology of the can be used to transfer electrical current to

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Published: Jan 12, 2014

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