Details of Grant

EPSRC Reference:

EP/D023378/1

Title:

IDEAS Factory - Chemical Craftwork: Evolvable CHELLware

Principal Investigator:

Other Investigators:

Cronin, Professor L	Whitby, Professor RJ	Krasnogor, Professor N
Schroeder, Professor SLM	Davis, Professor B

Researcher Co-Investigators:

Project Partners:

University of Glasgow	University of Manchester, The	University of Oxford
University of Southampton

Department:

Sch of Chemistry

Organisation:

University of Leeds

Scheme:

Standard Research (Pre-FEC)

Starts:

01 October 2005

Ends:

31 March 2009

Value (£):

81,737

EPSRC Research Topic Classifications:

Biological & Medicinal Chem.	Bioprocess Engineering
Chemical Synthetic Methodology	Complex fluids & soft solids
Fundamentals of Computing	Light-Matter Interactions
Modelling & simul. of IT sys.	Non-linear Systems Mathematics

EPSRC Industrial Sector Classifications:

Chemicals	Healthcare
Pharmaceuticals and Biotechnology

Related Grants:

EP/D021847/1

Panel History:

Summary on Grant Application Form

Darwinian evolution by natural selection has been adopted by living systems as a robust solution to the problems of surviving in and adapting to a changing environment. In other fields computer algorithms which mimic this evolutionary strategy are finding many applications; particularly in electronic engineering, where field programmable gate arrays can be constructed by evolutionary programs to perform complicated tasks. This approach to electronic circuit design is known as Evolvable Hardware. In EHW an electronic circuit can change, adapt and reconfigure its own hardware structure in response to environmental changes (e.g. malfunctions, disconnections, modifications of functional requirements, etc.). Our proposal is based on the analogous idea of using evolutionary algorithms to develop chemical functionality in arrays of programable chemical reactors, based on current lab-on-a-chip and electrochemical cells. In the future we hope to apply these methods to complex reactors built in artificial vesicles which communicate by chemical signals much like a living cell.

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