Dipartimento di Informatica, Sistemistica e Comunicazione, Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy.
PLoS One. 2024 Aug 20;19(8):e0309066. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0309066. eCollection 2024.
Liquid Marbles are liquid droplets encapsulated by hydrophobic powder particles; due to their non-wetting nature, they allow to manipulate liquids efficiently. Literature highlighted their potential to be employed as micro-reactors, micro-containers for growing micro-organisms and cells, micro-fluidics devices, and have also been used in the framework of unconventional computing. In this work, we discuss a theoretical implementation of all required components to define a multi-cycle datapath based on Liquid Marbles. Then, we consider issues related to scalability, by discussing how the circuits can be expanded with the growth of the inputs, and also how they can be modified to overcome the issues related to the growing time and space complexity.
液珠是由疏水性粉末颗粒包裹的液滴；由于其不润湿的性质，它们可以有效地操纵液体。文献强调了它们作为微反应器、微生物和细胞生长的微容器、微流控装置的潜力，也被用于非常规计算框架。在这项工作中，我们讨论了基于液珠实现定义多周期数据路径所需的所有组件的理论实现。然后，我们通过讨论随着输入的增长如何扩展电路以及如何修改电路以克服与增长的时间和空间复杂度相关的问题，来考虑可扩展性相关的问题。
