Scaling-up molecular logic to meso-systems via self-assembly

Scaling-up molecular logic to meso-systems via self-assembly

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Abstract Due to the small size and biocompatibility of molecules, molecular logic-based computation is a gateway to the informational basis of life processes.Logic-based computation operates widely with discrete molecules of up to nanometric sizes.The contribution of molecule-based bulk materials of milli/centimetric size to the field has begun in more recent years.

However, artificial read more molecule-based meso-scale systems which intrinsically perform logic operations are very rare.Here, we show that self-assembled systems consisting of cyclophane octacarboxylates and a cationic surfactant can footjoy weste herren perform such functions, where a membrane itself behaves as a Reset-Set Flip-Flop which is integrated with 7 more logic elements.Now that molecular logic-based computation operates across a wide range of contiguous size-scales, the way opens for its general use in information processing aspects of biology and synthetic biology.