Encoding information into polymers

Projektinformationen

ENCOPOL

ID Finanzhilfevereinbarung: 740295

DOI 10.3030/740295

Abgeschlossenes Projekt

EK-Unterschriftsdatum 26 April 2017

Startdatum 1 Juli 2017

Enddatum 30 Juni 2022

Finanziert unter

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Gesamtkosten € 2 498 076,00

EU-Beitrag € 2 498 076,00

Koordiniert durch

STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT
Netherlands

Ziel

The amount of information trafficking internet nowadays is enormous and will increase further in the near future. It can be expected that in the next decennia the current technologies to store and process data will no longer suffice and that other strategies to handle information have to be developed. One approach is to explore chemical routes, which nature has also followed during evolution: our brain can store and handle very large amounts of data and process them in a way silicon-based computers cannot do. Although brain-like chemical computers are still far beyond reach, it is of interest to explore how atom and molecule-based systems that can write, read, and store information might be designed and constructed. In this proposal we aim at developing a new technology to write, store, and read information, i.e. on a single polymer chain with the help of a molecular machine that is inspired by the hypothetical device (Turing machine) proposed by the British mathematician Alan Turing in 1936 as the general basis for the operation of a computer. The molecular machine is composed of a chiral catalytic cage compound (tape-head) that moves unidirectionally along a chiral polymer chain (tape) while writing a binary code in the form of (R)- (symbol 0) and (S)- (symbol 1) epoxide functions. This writing process is controlled by light or electrons. The information on the tape will be read by single molecule spectroscopy using a reading device that is also based on a chiral cage compound. It moves along the encoded tape and produces left- or right-handed polarized fluorescence light depending on whether it reads a 0 (R-epoxide) or 1 (S-epoxide). As part of this project we will also make the first steps towards chemical computing by arranging two circular tapes (one left-handed and the other one right-handed), each with an attached writing head, in a teller set-up, which allows them to be addressed separately with light according to a set of instructions (Minsky machine).

Wissenschaftliches Gebiet

• natural sciences › computer and information sciences › internet
• natural sciences › chemical sciences › polymer sciences
• natural sciences › physical sciences › optics › spectroscopy

Schlüsselbegriffe

• ENCOPOL

Programm/Programme

• H2020-EU.1.1. - EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC) Main Programme

Thema/Themen

• ERC-2016-ADG - ERC Advanced Grant

Aufforderung zur Vorschlagseinreichung

ERC-2016-ADG

Finanzierungsplan

ERC-ADG - Advanced Grant

Gastgebende Einrichtung

STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 2 498 076,00
• Adresse: HOUTLAAN 4 ; 6525 XZ Nijmegen ; Niederlande
• Region: Oost-Nederland › Gelderland › Arnhem/Nijmegen
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 2 498 076,00

Begünstigte (1)

STICHTING RADBOUD UNIVERSITEIT

Niederlande

• Netto-EU-Beitrag: € 2 498 076,00
• Adresse: HOUTLAAN 4 ; 6525 XZ Nijmegen
• Region: Oost-Nederland › Gelderland › Arnhem/Nijmegen
• Aktivitätstyp: Higher or Secondary Education Establishments
• Gesamtkosten: € 2 498 076,00