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Alignment of liquid crystal/carbon nanotube dispersions for application in unconventional computing (2015)
Conference Proceeding
Massey, M., Volpati, D., Qaiser, F., Kotsialos, A., Pearson, C., Zeze, D., & Petty, M. (2015). Alignment of liquid crystal/carbon nanotube dispersions for application in unconventional computing. . https://doi.org/10.1063/1.4912538

We demonstrate the manipulation of single-walled carbon nanotube/liquid crystal composites using in-plane electric fields. The conductivity of the materials is shown to be dependant on the application of a DC bias across the electrodes. When the mate... Read More about Alignment of liquid crystal/carbon nanotube dispersions for application in unconventional computing.

Evolution-in-materio: solving function optimization problems using materials (2014)
Conference Proceeding
Mohid, M., Miller, J., Harding, S., Tufte, G., Lykkebo, O., Massey, M., & Petty, M. (2014). Evolution-in-materio: solving function optimization problems using materials. In Computational Intelligence (UKCI) : 2014 14th UK Workshop on, 8-10 September 2014, Bradford, UK ; proceedings (1-8). https://doi.org/10.1109/ukci.2014.6930152

Evolution-in-materio (EIM) is a method that uses artificial evolution to exploit properties of materials to solve computational problems without requiring a detailed understanding of such properties. In this paper, we show that using a purpose-built... Read More about Evolution-in-materio: solving function optimization problems using materials.