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Advances in Physarum MachinesSlime Mould Controller for Microbial Fuel Cells

Advances in Physarum Machines: Slime Mould Controller for Microbial Fuel Cells [Microbial fuels cells (MFCs) are bio-electrochemical transducers that generate energy from the metabolism of electro-active microorganisms. The organism Physarum polycephalum is a species of slime mould, which has demonstrated many novel and interesting properties in the field of unconventional computation, such as route mapping between nutrient sources, maze solving and nutrient balancing. It is a motile, photosensitive and oxygen-consuming organism, and is known to be symbiotic with some, and antagonistic with other, microbial species. In the context of artificial life, the slime mould would provide a biological mechanism (along with the microbial community) for controlling the performance and behaviour of artificial systems. In the following experiments it was found that Physarum did not generate significant amounts of power when inoculated in the anode. However, when Physarum was introduced in the cathode of MFCs, a statistically significant difference in power output was observed.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Advances in Physarum MachinesSlime Mould Controller for Microbial Fuel Cells

Part of the Emergence, Complexity and Computation Book Series (volume 21)
Editors: Adamatzky, Andrew
Taylor, Benjamin; Adamatzky, Andrew; Greenman, John; Ieropoulos, Ioannis
Advances in Physarum Machines — Jan 10, 2016
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Publisher
Springer International Publishing
Copyright
© Springer International Publishing Switzerland 2016
ISBN
978-3-319-26661-9
Pages
285 –298
DOI
10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_14
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Abstract

[Microbial fuels cells (MFCs) are bio-electrochemical transducers that generate energy from the metabolism of electro-active microorganisms. The organism Physarum polycephalum is a species of slime mould, which has demonstrated many novel and interesting properties in the field of unconventional computation, such as route mapping between nutrient sources, maze solving and nutrient balancing. It is a motile, photosensitive and oxygen-consuming organism, and is known to be symbiotic with some, and antagonistic with other, microbial species. In the context of artificial life, the slime mould would provide a biological mechanism (along with the microbial community) for controlling the performance and behaviour of artificial systems. In the following experiments it was found that Physarum did not generate significant amounts of power when inoculated in the anode. However, when Physarum was introduced in the cathode of MFCs, a statistically significant difference in power output was observed.]

Published: Jan 10, 2016

Keywords: Microbial Fuel Cell; Slime Mould; Anode Chamber; Cathode Electrode; Anode Electrode

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