title: Playing Tic-Tac-Toe with a Sugar-Based Molecular Computer.
abstract: Today, molecules can perform Boolean operations and circuits at a level of higher complexity. However, concatenation of logic gates and inhomogeneous inputs and outputs are still challenging tasks. Novel approaches for logic gate integration are possible when chemical programming and software programming are combined. Here it is shown that a molecular finite automaton based on the concatenated implication function (IMP) of a fluorescent two-component sugar probe via a wiring algorithm is able to play tic-tac-toe.
authors.affiliation: Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Humboldtstr. 8, 07743 Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Elstner
authors.affiliation: Institute for Inorganic and Analytical Chemistry, Friedrich Schiller University Jena , Humboldtstr. 8, 07743 Jena, Germany.
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Schiller
mesh_terms: D000465:Algorithms; D001897:Boronic Acids / Q000737:chemistry; D002241:Carbohydrates / Q000737:chemistry*; D039301:Computers, Molecular; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes / Q000737:chemistry*; D006801:Humans; D008128:Logic; D053758:Nanoparticles / Q000737:chemistry; D012984:Software; D018910:Video Games
chemical_list: D001897:Boronic Acids; D002241:Carbohydrates; D005456:Fluorescent Dyes