An Intelligent Material with Chemical Pathway Networks

TL;DR

This paper introduces 'intelligent plasma', a new programmable material with embedded chemical pathway networks that can autonomously perform complex tasks by reacting to conditions without external control.

Contribution

It presents a novel material with programmable chemical networks resembling neural networks, enabling autonomous decision-making and complex task execution.

Findings

Demonstrates programmable chemical pathways in plasma materials.

Shows autonomous decision-making capabilities.

Provides examples of applications like workflows and signal processing.

Abstract

A new type of material with embedded intelligence, namely 'intelligent plasma', is introduced. Such new material exhibits programmable chemical pathway networks resembling artificial neural networks. As a Markov process of chemistry, the chemical pathway network can be customized and thus the intelligent plasmas can be programmed to make their own decisions to react to the dynamic external and internal conditions. It finally can accomplish complex missions without any external controls from the humans while relying on its preprogrammed chemical network topology before the mission. To that end, only basic data input and readings are required without any external controls during the mission. The approach to 'if' conditions and 'while' loops of the programmable intelligent plasmas are also discussed with examples of applications including automatic workflows, and signal processing.