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Wireless Communication Through Microtubule Analogue Device: Noise-Driven Machines in the Bio-Systems

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Engineering Vibration, Communication and Information Processing

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Looking beyond ionic communication in bio-systems that is limited to a narrow band of kHz frequency domain is our objective. Microtubule, a vital subcellular biomolecule found in almost all eukaryotic living systems, plays an important role in processing the cellular information. Therefore, here we introduce a microtubule analogue device, which wirelessly communicates with the neighboring microtubules and harvest energy from the noise present in the environment. The device is composed of spatially arranged lattice geometry with two different lattice parameters made of capacitors as tubulin protein analogue arranged on cylindrical shape structures. To demonstrate that the noise is harvested, both the devices are operated by noise, no ordered signal is applied in any measurement. Separation between both the devices is varied, while nearing the distance, the transmitted signal increases continuously and when they are taken further apart, the signal decreases gradually to null at ~140 cm. We image live, the generation and transmission of magnetic flux condensate between these two devices. This experiment is also repeated by inserting a magnetic shield 99.99% pure Ni sheet between two structures, which allows very less wireless transmission due to the shielding. The wireless communication frequency is in the range kHz–MHz.

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We thank Dave Sonntag and Martin Timms for the independent test and verification of our device as part of patent US9019685B2. Authors acknowledge the Asian office of Aerospace R&D (AOARD), a part of United States Air Force (USAF) for the Grant no. FA2386-16-1-0003 (2016–2019) on the electromagnetic resonance-based communication and intelligence of biomaterials.

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    Komal Saxena, K. V. Karthik, Suryakant Kumar, D. Fujita & Anirban Bandyopadhyay

  2. Microwave Physics Laboratory, Dayalbagh Educational Institute, Dayalbagh, Agra, 282005, Uttar Pradesh, India

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Saxena, K., Karthik, K.V., Kumar, S., Fujita, D., Bandyopadhyay, A. (2019). Wireless Communication Through Microtubule Analogue Device: Noise-Driven Machines in the Bio-Systems. In: Ray, K., Sharan, S., Rawat, S., Jain, S., Srivastava, S., Bandyopadhyay, A. (eds) Engineering Vibration, Communication and Information Processing. Lecture Notes in Electrical Engineering, vol 478. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-1642-5_64

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