Computing with proteionids

用于制造电子设备的资源和方法引发了关于电子设备的制造、使用和处置对环境的负面影响的紧迫问题。使用有机材料制造电子设备可能会为发展我们的电子世界提供一种环保和负担得起的方法。新的有机计算基板可能创造出硅无法复制的新特性，以迄今为止无法想象的方式扩展计算机和电子世界。有机电子学的姊妹领域是非传统计算，它揭示了物理、化学和生物系统中有效信息处理和计算的新原理，以开发新的计算衬底、算法和体系结构。我们将把非传统计算和有机电子学相结合，设计并制作一个独特的由中空蛋白微球组成的微尺度原核形态网络。该网络处理的信息类似于耦合振荡器的系综。

The resources and methodologies used to manufacture electronic devices raise urgent questions about the negative environmental impacts of the manufacture, use, and disposal of electronic devices. The use of organic materials to build electronic devices may offer an eco-friendly and affordable approach to growing our electronic world. New organic computing substrates might create novel properties impossible to replicate with silicon, expanding the world of computing and electronics in ways unimaginable until now. The sister field of organic electronics is the unconventional computing which uncovers novel principles of efficient information processing and computation in physical, chemical and biological systems, to develop novel computing substrates, algorithms and architectures. We will hybridise the unconventional computing and organic electronics to design and prototype a unique micro-scale protoneuromorphic network made of hollow protein microspheres. The network processes information analogous to ensembles of coupled oscillators.