A new COlloidal cybernetIc sysTem tOwaRds 2030

Project Information

COgITOR

Grant agreement ID: 964388

DOI

10.3030/964388

Project closed

EC signature date 19 January 2021

Start date 1 June 2021

End date 28 February 2026

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - Future and Emerging Technologies (FET)

Total cost

€ 3 342 140,00

EU contribution

€ 3 342 140,00

Coordinated by

FONDAZIONE ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA
Italy

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Deliverables

Websites, patent fillings, videos etc. (1)

Project logo and website

Distribution of the project logo and initiation of the website

Documents, reports (6)

Report on memory and computation materials, final

This deliverable consists in a document containing literature review and trade-off table for the proper selection of materials to be used in the memory and computation subsystem of COgITOR.

Report on self-healing materials

This report will contain a literature overview and trade-off table for the self-healing soft materials to be used in COgITOR.

2030 Visionary and Technology Roadmap

This deliverable consists of a visionary roadmap describing the future decade of impacts of COgITOR on science and technology

Report on memory & computation materials, intermediate

This deliverable consists in a document containing literature review and tradeoff table for the proper selection of materials to be used in the memory and computation subsystem of COgITOR

Stakeholder analysis

This deliverable consists of a report containing a detailed analysis of the stakeholders applicable for communication of project COgITOR results, to initiate contacts with industrial partners.

Dissemination and communication plan

This will be a live deliverable, updated at M12, M24, M36 and M48, containing the dissemination and communication plan.

Demonstrators, pilots, prototypes (2)

Harvesting subsystem, intermediate

This deliverable will be the prototype of the energy harvesting subsystem realized to power the COgITOR, and based on liquid state materials.

Memory & computing subsystem

This deliverable consists in the demonstration of memorization and computation capabilities of the COgITOR subsystem.

Other (1)

Art&science&technology school and fair

The deliverable will consist in the organization of a public event, containing art installations, scientific symposia for different level of scientific literacy, and a fair, hosting a number of high-tech companies.

Open Research Data Pilot (1)

Data management plan

Creation and maintenance of the data management plan.

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (31)

Logical circuits in colloids

Author(s): Nic Roberts, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Alessandro Chiolerio, Marco Crepaldi, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Royal Society Open Science, Issue 11, 2024, ISSN 2054-5703
Publisher: Royal Society
DOI: 10.1098/rsos.231939

An 180 nm Four-Port Multi-Directional ASIC for Holonomic Features Extraction of Colloidal Systems

Author(s): Charanraj Mohan, Marco Crepaldi, Alessandro Chiolerio
Published in: IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I: Regular Papers, 2026, Page(s) 1-14, ISSN 1549-8328
Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers
DOI: 10.1109/tcsi.2025.3648506

Liquid Spaceships for Advanced Autonomous Exploration

Author(s): Alessandro Chiolerio
Published in: International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 2025, ISSN 1548-7199
Publisher: Old City Publishing
DOI: 10.32908/ijuc.v20.12

Learning in colloidal polyaniline nanorods

Author(s): Alessandro Chiolerio, Erik Garofalo, Neil Phillips, Ermelinda Falletta, Rodrigo de Oliveira, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Results in Physics, Issue 58, 2024, Page(s) 107501, ISSN 2211-3797
Publisher: Elsevier
DOI: 10.1016/j.rinp.2024.107501

Electrical spiking activity of proteinoids-ZnO colloids

Author(s): Panagiotis Mougkogiannis, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Alessandro Chiolerio, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Neuromorphic Computing and Engineering, Issue 4, 2024, Page(s) 014007, ISSN 2634-4386
Publisher: Institute of Physics
DOI: 10.1088/2634-4386/ad2afb

Electro-ferroelectric characterization of nicotinium tetrachloridocuprate( <scp>ii</scp> ) memristor for prospective neuromorphic applications

Author(s): Gisya Abdi, Andrzej Sławek, Alessandro Chiolerio, Katarzyna Berent, Konrad Szaciłowski
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 22539-22553, ISSN 2050-7534
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d5tc03407h

Experimental Demonstration of In‐Memory Computing in a Ferrofluid System

Author(s): Marco Crepaldi, Charanraj Mohan, Erik Garofalo, Andrew Adamatzky, Konrad Szaciłowski, Alessandro Chiolerio
Published in: Advanced Materials, Issue 35, 2023, ISSN 0935-9648
Publisher: United Nations Industrial Developement Organization
DOI: 10.1002/adma.202211406

Boolean Circuits in Colloidal Mixtures of ZnO and Proteinoids

Author(s): Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Panagiotis Mougkogiannis, Alessandro Chiolerio, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: ACS Omega, Issue 9, 2024, Page(s) 42127-42136, ISSN 2470-1343
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.4c02468

Complexity and Nonlinearity of Colloid Electrical Transducers

Author(s): Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Alessandro Chiolerio, Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: International Journal of Unconventional Computing, 2025, ISSN 1548-7199
Publisher: Old City Publishing
DOI: 10.32908/ijuc.v20.11

Plasmonic Nanofluids: Enhancing Photothermal Gradients toward Liquid Robots

Author(s): Matteo Bevione, Alessandro Chiolerio, Giulia Tagliabue
Published in: ACS Applied Materials &amp; Interfaces, Issue 15, 2023, Page(s) 50106-50115, ISSN 1944-8244
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsami.3c06859

Learning in colloids: Synapse-like ZnO + DMSO colloid

Author(s): Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Alessandro Chiolerio, Neil Phillips, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Neurocomputing, Issue 557, 2024, Page(s) 126710, ISSN 0925-2312
Publisher: Elsevier BV
DOI: 10.1016/j.neucom.2023.126710

On complexity of colloid cellular automata

Author(s): Andrew Adamatzky, Nic Roberts, Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Panagiotis Mougkogiannis, Michail-Antisthenis Tsompanas, Genaro J. Martínez, Georgios Ch. Sirakoulis, Alessandro Chiolerio
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 14, 2024, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-024-72107-6

Responsive Magnetic Polymer Nanocomposites through Thermal-Induced Structural Reorganization

Author(s): Qing Chen, Roman Furrer, Loghman Jamilpanah, Andrei Chumakov, Yusuf Bulut, Constantin Harder, Peter Müller-Buschbaum, Stephan V. Roth, Artur Braun
Published in: ACS Nano, Issue 19, 2025, Page(s) 6165-6179, ISSN 1936-0851
Publisher: American Chemical Society
DOI: 10.1021/acsnano.4c14311

A grapeful discovery: Reservoir computing with wine beads

Author(s): Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Alessandro Chiolerio, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: PNAS Nexus, Issue 4, 2025, ISSN 2752-6542
Publisher: Oxford University Press (OUP)
DOI: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf335

Visible light: shaping chemical intelligence in proteinoid–ZnO interfaces

Author(s): Panagiotis Mougkogiannis, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: New Journal of Chemistry, Issue 48, 2024, Page(s) 17650-17669, ISSN 1144-0546
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4nj03803g

Hygro‐Dynamic and Conductive Actuator That Restructures and Heals by Water

Author(s): Qing Chen, Tina Künniger, Qun Song, Kai Zhang, Andrei Chumakov, Yusuf Bulut, Constantin Harder, Peter Müller‐Buschbaum, Stephan V. Roth, Artur Braun
Published in: Advanced Functional Materials, Issue 34, 2024, ISSN 1616-301X
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Ltd.
DOI: 10.1002/adfm.202402924

CAUIM: Amazonian Cassava‐Based Programmable Biocolloid

Author(s): Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Clay Palmeira, Davin Browner, Alessandro Chiolerio, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Advanced Intelligent Systems, Issue 8, 2026, ISSN 2640-4567
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/aisy.202501057

Hydrogel-based thermoelectrochemical cells for waste heat recovery under passive cooling conditions

Author(s): Matteo Bevione, Gopal Narmada Naidu, Giulia Tagliabue
Published in: Materials Horizons, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 7594-7605, ISSN 2051-6347
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/d5mh00771b

Observation of phase correlations in ferrofluids

Author(s): Alessandro Chiolerio, Giuseppe Vitiello, Mohammad Mahdi Dehshibi, Marco Crepaldi, Diego Torazza, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2026, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-026-45834-1

Liquid ferrofluid synapses for spike-based neuromorphic learning

Author(s): Charanraj Mohan, Marco Crepaldi, Diego Torazza, Andrew Adamatzky, Gisya Abdi, Aleksandra Szkudlarek, Alessandro Chiolerio
Published in: Materials Horizons, Issue 12, 2025, Page(s) 4193-4207, ISSN 2051-6347
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry (RSC)
DOI: 10.1039/d4mh01592d

Plasmonic Nanostructures for Enhanced Self-Healing in Materials: A Review

Author(s): Adriana Nunes dos Santos, Rodrigo J. de Oliveira, Alessandro Chiolerio
Published in: ACS Omega, Issue 10, 2025, Page(s) 47748-47760, ISSN 2470-1343
Publisher: American Chemical Society (ACS)
DOI: 10.1021/acsomega.5c03274

Sustainable reservoir computing with liquid egg albumen

Author(s): Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Davin Browner, Alessandro Chiolerio, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Journal of Materials Chemistry C, Issue 13, 2025, Page(s) 7411-7419, ISSN 2050-7534
Publisher: Royal Society of Chemistry
DOI: 10.1039/d4tc05233a

Restructurable materials for soft actuators

Author(s): Qing Chen
Published in: Journal of Materials Research, 2024, ISSN 0884-2914
Publisher: Materials Research Society
DOI: 10.1557/s43578-024-01423-4

Pavlovian reflex in colloids

Author(s): Raeisi Kheirabadi, Noushin; Chiolerio, Alessandro; Adamatzky, Andy
Published in: BioNanoScience, Issue 3, 2024, ISSN 2191-1649
Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media
DOI: 10.1007/s12668-023-01287-8

On fault-tolerant Boolean functions in proteinoids–ZnO colloids

Author(s): Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Panagiotis Mougkogiannis, Raphael Fortulan, Nic Roberts, Alessandro Chiolerio, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Electronics, Issue 36, 2025, ISSN 0957-4522
Publisher: Kluwer Academic Publishers
DOI: 10.1007/s10854-025-14302-3

Neuromorphic Liquids, Colloids, and Gels: A Review

Author(s): Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Alessandro Chiolerio, Konrad Szaciłowski, and Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: ChemPhysChem, 2023, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1439-7641
Publisher: Wiley-VCH GmbH
DOI: 10.1002/cphc.202200390

Thermal colloid programming

Author(s): Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Alessandro Chiolerio, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Scientific Reports, Issue 15, 2025, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-97484-4

Proposing magnetoimpedance effect for neuromorphic computing

Author(s): Loghman Jamilpanah, Alessandro Chiolerio, Marco Crepaldi, Andrew Adamatzky, Majid Mohseni
Published in: Scientific Reports, 2023, ISSN 2045-2322
Publisher: Nature Publishing Group
DOI: 10.21203/rs.3.rs-2481120/v1

Tracing Innovation Pathways

Author(s): Luigi Assom, Aron Larsson, Alessandro Chiolerio
Published in: Inventions, Issue 11, 2026, Page(s) 19, ISSN 2411-5134
Publisher: MDPI AG
DOI: 10.3390/inventions11010019

Achieving liquid processors by colloidal suspensions for reservoir computing

Author(s): Raphael Fortulan, Noushin Raeisi Kheirabadi, Alessandro Chiolerio, Andrew Adamatzky
Published in: Communications Materials, Issue 5, 2024, ISSN 2662-4443
Publisher: Springer Nature Limited
DOI: 10.1038/s43246-024-00653-7

Reconfigurable Soft Actuators Constructed via Layer‐by‐layer Assembly

Author(s): Qing Chen, Loghman Jamilpanah, Tina Künniger, Roman Furrer, Qun Song, Kai Zhang, Andrei Chumakov, Constantin Harder, Yusuf Bulut, Peter Müller‐Buschbaum, Stephan V. Roth, Artur Braun
Published in: Advanced Materials Interfaces, Issue 12, 2025, ISSN 2196-7350
Publisher: Wiley
DOI: 10.1002/admi.202500269