Catalysis by self-assembled structures in emergent reaction networks

Authors:
Gianluca Gazzola;Andrew Buchanan;Norman Packard;Mark Bedau
Affiliations:
ProtoLife Srl, Venezia, Italia and European Center for Living Technology, Venezia, Italia;ProtoLife Srl, Venezia, Italia and European Center for Living Technology, Venezia, Italia;ProtoLife Srl, Venezia, Italia and European Center for Living Technology, Venezia, Italia;ProtoLife Srl, Venezia, Italia and European Center for Living Technology, Venezia, Italia and Reed College, Portland
Venue:
ECAL'07 Proceedings of the 9th European conference on Advances in artificial life
Year:
2007

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Abstract

We study a new variant of the dissipative particle dynamics (DPD). model that includes the possibility of dynamically forming and breaking strong bonds. The emergent reaction kinetics may then interact with self-assembly processes. We observe that self-assembled amphiphilic aggregations such as micelles have a catalytic effect on chemical reaction networks, changing both equilibrium concentrations and reaction frequencies. These simulation results are in accordance with experimental results on the so-called "concentration effect".