ECCELL

Electronic chemical cell

Coordinatore	RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM    more  Organization address address: UNIVERSITAETSTRASSE 150 city: BOCHUM postcode: 44780 contact info Cognome: MCCASKILL, JOHN Email: send email Telefono: -9742824 Fax: -9742824
Nazionalità Coordinatore	Germany [DE]
Totale costo	2˙617˙766 €
EC contributo	1˙999˙999 €
Programma	FP7-ICT Specific Programme "Cooperation": Information and communication technologies
Funding Scheme	CP
Anno di inizio	2008
Periodo (anno-mese-giorno)	2008-09-01   -   2011-08-31

 Partecipanti

#	participant	country	role	EC contrib. [€]
1	RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM  Organization address address: UNIVERSITAETSTRASSE 150 city: BOCHUM postcode: 44780 contact info Cognome: MCCASKILL, JOHN Email: send email Telefono: -9742824 Fax: -9742824	DE (BOCHUM)	coordinator	0.00
2	RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN	NL	participant	0.00
3	SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET  Organization address address: CAMPUSVEJ 55 city: ODENSE M contact info Cognome: N/A	DK (ODENSE M)	participant	0.00
4	THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM.  Organization address address: GIVAT RAM CAMPUS city: JERUSALEM contact info Cognome: N/A	IL (JERUSALEM)	participant	0.00
5	UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI DI VENEZIA  Organization address address: DORSODURO 3246 city: VENEZIA postcode: 30123 contact info Cognome: N/A	IT (VENEZIA)	participant	0.00

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 Obiettivo del progetto (Objective)

ECCell

The aim of the project is to establish a novel basis for future embedded information technology by constructing the first electronically programmable chemical cell. This is naturally a high-risk, embryonic research project, but aimed at a breakthrough which will lay the foundation for immersed micro- and nanoscale molecular information processing with a paradigm shift to digitally programmable chemical systems. Chemical cells must combine self-replication, self-containment and self-regulation of resources (metabolism) enabling evolution to qualify as alive. ECCell will employ novel families of fully synthetic hybrid informational polyelectrolyte copolymers (not simply DNA), which simultaneously support all three cell functionalities. Their microscopic multiphase self-assembly under electric field control is the primary information processing mode of this technology.

Realtime digital electric field control sequences, regulating the semi-autonomous self-assembly and reactive molecular processing, will both provide an online programming methodology for these complex systems and potentially serve as electronic genomes for the chemical cells. Programming methodologies (beyond optimal control theory) will be explored and evaluated which deal effectively with the remote real time distributed regulation of these novel semi-autonomous combinatorially complex chemical systems. The research will establish an effective IT interface between microelectronic and molecular information processing, by demonstrating its use to achieve a hard chemical synthetic systems objective (an artificial cell) opening a platform for programming a novel chemical living technology at the microscale.