Designing self-maintaining inorganic systems at the boundary between chemistry and biology.
We study whether iron sulfide minerals — the same materials found at deep-sea hydrothermal vents — can be engineered into a minimal system that maintains itself without being alive.
| Project | Description | Status |
|---|---|---|
| digital-twin | ORACLE pipeline: Sobol/Gillespie + FNO/PINN surrogate for protocell viability | Active |
| sulfide-proton-barriers | NEB/MD calculations of H⁺ diffusion in iron sulfides | Preliminary results |
| exopoiesis.space | Project website | Live |
- Pentlandite blocks protons: E_a = 1.43 eV (MACE-MP-0 NEB, 2×2×2 supercell)
- Mackinawite conducts protons in-plane: E_a = 0.44 eV — 10¹⁷× anisotropy
- Bilayer membrane architecture enables spontaneous electrochemistry at ΔpH ≥ 2.3
Python · ASE · MACE-MP-0 · GPAW · Gillespie SSA · CI-NEB · Molecular Dynamics · FNO · PINN · PyTorch
Independent researcher, Ukraine. Background in computer hardware engineering. This project is developed through human–AI collaboration using Claude (Anthropic).