ECCELL
Electronic chemical cell
| Coordinatore | RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITAETSTRASSE 150 contact info |
| 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
| # | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
RUHR-UNIVERSITAET BOCHUM
Organization address
address: UNIVERSITAETSTRASSE 150 contact info |
DE (BOCHUM) | coordinator | 0.00 |
| 2 | RIJKSUNIVERSITEIT GRONINGEN | NL | participant | 0.00 |
| 3 |
SYDDANSK UNIVERSITET
Organization address
address: CAMPUSVEJ 55 contact info |
DK (ODENSE M) | participant | 0.00 |
| 4 |
THE HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM.
Organization address
address: GIVAT RAM CAMPUS contact info |
IL (JERUSALEM) | participant | 0.00 |
| 5 |
UNIVERSITA CA' FOSCARI DI VENEZIA
Organization address
address: DORSODURO 3246 contact info |
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.