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Area of Science:

  • Bio-computing
  • Materials Science
  • Crystallography

Background:

  • Conventional computing faces limitations in sustainability and scalability.
  • Bio-mineral interfaces offer novel substrates for information processing.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To propose and investigate kombucha-proteinoid crystal bioelectric circuits as a sustainable bio-computing platform.
  • To explore the potential of crystal growth dynamics for reconfigurable logic gates.

Main Methods:

  • Utilizing microfluidic prototypes with synthesized proteinoids in kombucha cellulose and calcium carbonate solutions.
  • Modulating crystal growth rates via programmed organic acid secretions to control biotic-mineral polarity.
  • Observing mineral density accumulation to perform additive/multiplicative operations and Boolean logic.

Main Results:

  • Demonstrated that precision modulation of crystal growth rates can instantiate reconfigurable logic gates.
  • Showcased proteinoid-guided carbonate crystallization capable of Boolean AND/OR logic operations.
  • Proposed chaining modular crystallizer units for neural assembly-like logic structures.

Conclusions:

  • Kombucha-proteinoid crystal bioelectric circuits represent a viable material platform for unconventional computing.
  • This approach offers green, self-organizing, and scalable architectures grown directly from solution.
  • Further validation is required to confirm the proof-of-concept for this novel bio-computing paradigm.