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Biology of the Physarum polycephalum Plasmodium: Preliminaries for Unconventional Computing Read chapter Read first chapter

2016 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

Slime Mould Controller for Microbial Fuel Cells

Authors : Benjamin Taylor, Andrew Adamatzky, John Greenman, Ioannis Ieropoulos

Published in: Advances in Physarum Machines

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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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.

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Metadata
Title
Slime Mould Controller for Microbial Fuel Cells
Authors
Benjamin Taylor
Andrew Adamatzky
John Greenman
Ioannis Ieropoulos
Copyright Year
2016
Book
Advances in Physarum Machines

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-26661-9

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-26662-6

Copyright Year: 2016

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-26662-6_14

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