Achieving synchronization with active hybrid materials: Coupling self-oscillating gels and piezoelectric films.

ABSTRACT: Lightweight, deformable materials that can sense and respond to human touch and motion can be the basis of future wearable computers, where the material itself will be capable of performing computations. To facilitate the creation of "materials that compute", we draw from two emerging modalities for computation: chemical computing, which relies on reaction-diffusion mechanisms to perform operations, and oscillatory computing, which performs pattern recognition through synchronization of coupled oscillators. Chemical computing systems, however, suffer from the fact that the reacting species are coupled only locally; the coupling is limited by diffusion as the chemical waves propagate throughout the system. Additionally, oscillatory computing systems have not utilized a potentially wearable

SUBMITTER: Yashin VV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4478467 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature