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  1. It is either body or brain first when building autonomous microrobots

    Article • Nature Electronics, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  2. Modular microrobotics transitioning from remote to on-board electronic control

    Article • Nature Reviews Materials, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  3. Si chiplet–controlled 3D modular microrobots with smart communication in natural aqueous environments

    Article • Science Robotics, August 2025, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Professor John S McCaskill

  4. Efficient Energy Management for Intelligent Microrobotic Swarms: Design and Impact

    Article • Advanced Energy Materials, April 2024, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  5. Author Correction: 3D nanofabricated soft microrobots with super-compliant picoforce springs as onboard sensors and actuators

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, March 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  6. Bio‐Inspired Dynamically Morphing Microelectronics toward High‐Density Energy Applications and Intelligent Biomedical Implants

    Article • Advanced Materials, March 2024, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  7. 3D nanofabricated soft microrobots with super-compliant picoforce springs as onboard sensors and actuators

    Article • Nature Nanotechnology, January 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  8. Open-Endedness in Genelife

    Article • Artificial Life, January 2024, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  9. Microelectronic Morphogenesis: Smart Materials with Electronics Assembling into Artificial Organisms

    Article • Advanced Materials, October 2023, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  10. Analysing Emergent Dynamics of Evolving Computation in 2D Cellular Automata

    Article • January 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  11. From quasispecies to quasispaces: coding and cooperation in chemical and electronic systems

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, March 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  12. Encoding and Representation of Information Processing in Irregular Computational Matter

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  13. Microscopic Chemically Reactive Electronic Agents

    Article • January 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  14. A $200~\mu \text{m}$ by $100~\mu \text{m}$ Smart Submersible System With an Average Current Consumption of 1.3nA and a Compatible Voltage Converter

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Circuits and Systems I Regular Papers, December 2017, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  15. Optomagnetic detection of DNA triplex nanoswitches

    Article • The Analyst, January 2017, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor John S McCaskill

  16. A 200 μm by 100 μm Smart Dust system with an average current consumption of 1.3 nA

    Article • December 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  17. A CMOS 16k microelectrode array as docking platform for autonomous microsystems

    Article • November 2016, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  18. Ultra low-power, -area and -frequency CMOS thyristor based oscillator for autonomous microsystems

    Article • Analog Integrated Circuits and Signal Processing, July 2016, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  19. Ultra low-power, -area and -frequency CMOS thyristor based oscillator for autonomous microsystems

    Article • October 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  20. Sequence-specific nucleic acid mobility using a reversible block copolymer gel matrix and DNA amphiphiles (lipid-DNA) in capillary and microfluidic electrophoretic separations

    Article • Electrophoresis, September 2015, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  21. Autonomous lablet locomotion and active docking by sensomotory electroosmotic drive

    Article • July 2015, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  22. DNA-library assembly programmed by on-demand nano-liter droplets from a custom microfluidic chip

    Article • Biomicrofluidics, July 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Professor John S McCaskill

  23. Editorial

    Article • Artificial Life, May 2015, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  24. Emergence of Coding and its Specificity as a Physico-Informatic Problem

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, March 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  25. General-Purpose, Parallel and Reversible Microfluidic Interconnects

    Article • IEEE Transactions on Components Packaging and Manufacturing Technology, March 2015, Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  26. Corrigendum to: “Field programmable chemistry: Integrated chemical and electronic processing of informational molecules towards electronic chemical cells” [Biosystems, (2012) 109: 2–17]

    Article • Biosystems, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  27. Electronic pH switching of DNA triplex reactions

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor John S McCaskill

  28. Addressing, amplifying and switching DNAzyme functions by electrochemically-triggered release of metal ions

    Article • Chemical Science, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor John S McCaskill, Professor Itamar Willner

  29. On demand nanoliter-scale microfluidic droplet generation, injection, and mixing using a passive microfluidic device

    Article • Biomicrofluidics, January 2015, American Institute of Physics

    Professor John S McCaskill

  30. Correction: Electronic pH switching of DNA triplex reactions

    Article • RSC Advances, January 2015, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor John S McCaskill

  31. DNA mit 3′-5′-Disulfid-Verknüpfung - schnelle chemische Ligation durch isosteren Ersatz

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  32. DNA with 3′-5′-Disulfide Links-Rapid Chemical Ligation through Isosteric Replacement

    Article • Angewandte Chemie, March 2014, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  33. Introduction to Recent Developments in Living Technology

    Article • Artificial Life, October 2013, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  34. Field programmable chemistry: Integrated chemical and electronic processing of informational molecules towards electronic chemical cells

    Article • Biosystems, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  35. Biological and Chemical Information Technologies

    Article • Procedia Computer Science, January 2011, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  36. Living Technology: Exploiting Life's Principles in Technology

    Article • Artificial Life, January 2010, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  37. Spatially resolved simulations of membrane reactions and dynamics: Multipolar reaction DPD

    Article • The European Physical Journal E, August 2009, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  38. Dynamics of adatoms interacting with metals and metal surfaces: The validity of the description given by Kramers' equation

    Article • International Journal of Quantum Chemistry, June 2009, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  39. Evolutionary Microfluidic Complementation Toward Artificial Cells

    Article • November 2008, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  40. A Roadmap to Protocells

    Article • November 2008, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  41. Electronically programmable membranes for improved biomolecule handling in micro-compartments on-chip

    Article • Chemical Engineering Journal, January 2008, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  42. Evolutionary self-organization in complex fluids

    Article • Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, October 2007, Royal Society Publishing

    Professor John S McCaskill

  43. The Molecular Quasi-Species

    Article • March 2007, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  44. EVOLVING INDUCTIVE GENERALIZATION VIA GENETIC SELF-ASSEMBLY

    Article • Advances in Complex Systems, March 2006, World Scientific Pub Co Pte Lt

    Professor John S McCaskill

  45. An Electronically Controlled Microfluidic Approach towards Artificial Cells

    Article • Complexus, January 2006, Karger Publishers

    Professor John S McCaskill

  46. Evolutionary Design of a DDPD Model of Ligation

    Article • January 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  47. Optimization and design of oligonucleotide setup for strand displacement amplification

    Article • Journal of Biochemical and Biophysical Methods, June 2005, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  48. Flows in micro fluidic networks: From theory to experiment

    Article • Natural Computing, December 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  49. Molecular systems on-chip (MSoC) steps forward for programmable biosystems

    Article • July 2004, SPIE

    Professor John S McCaskill

  50. Evolutionary stabilization of generous replicases by complex formation

    Article • Zeitschrift für Physik B Condensed Matter and Quanta, March 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  51. Folding Stabilizes the Evolution of Catalysts

    Article • Artificial Life, January 2004, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  52. Microfabrication of a BioModule composed of microfluidics and digitally controlled microelectrodes for processing biomolecules

    Article • Smart Materials and Structures, September 2003, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor John S McCaskill

  53. Construction of an integrated biomodule composed of microfluidics and digitally controlled microelectrodes for processing biomolecules.

    Article • January 2003, SPIE

    Professor John S McCaskill

  54. Hybrid poly(dimethylsiloxane)-silicon microreactors used for molecular computing

    Article • Smart Materials and Structures, September 2002, Institute of Physics Publishing

    Professor John S McCaskill

  55. Biochemical Amplification Waves in a One-Dimensional Microflow System

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, May 2002, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  56. DNA Computing in Microreactors

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  57. Cascadable Hybridisation Transfer of Specific DNA between Microreactor Selection Modules

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  58. Simulation of evolving systems using FPGA technology

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  59. Advanced Simulation in the Configurable Massively Parallel Hardware MereGen

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  60. DNA computing in microreactors

    Article • November 2001, SPIE

    Professor John S McCaskill

  61. Parallel random number generator for inexpensive configurable hardware cells

    Article • Computer Physics Communications, November 2001, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  62. Evolutionary self-organization of cell-free genetic coding

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, July 2001, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor John S McCaskill

  63. Error Threshold for Spatially Resolved Evolution in the Quasispecies Model

    Article • Physical Review Letters, June 2001, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  64. Optically programming DNA computing in microflow reactors

    Article • Biosystems, February 2001, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  65. The Stochastic Evolution of Catalysts in Spatially Resolved Molecular Systems

    Article • Biological Chemistry, January 2001, De Gruyter

    Professor John S McCaskill

  66. Graph replacement chemistry for DNA processing

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  67. Steady flow micro-reactor module for pipelined DNA computations

    Article • January 2001, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  68. End-specific covalent photo-dependent immobilisation of synthetic DNA to paramagnetic beads

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  69. Open Problems in Artificial Life

    Article • Artificial Life, October 2000, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  70. From Reconfigurability to Evolution in Construction Systems: Spanning the Electronic, Microfluidic and Biomolecular Domains

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  71. Isothermal Biochemical Amplification in Miniaturized Reactors with Integrated Microvalves

    Article • January 2000, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  72. Complex patterns in a trans-cooperatively coupled DNA amplification system

    Article • Chemical Engineering Science, January 2000, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  73. Complex patterns predicted in an in vitro experimental model system for the evolution of molecular cooperation

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, June 1999, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  74. In vitro evolution of molecular cooperation in CATCH, a cooperatively coupled amplification system

    Article • Chemistry & Biology, December 1998, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  75. In vitroDNA-based Predator–Prey System with Oscillatory Kinetics

    Article • The Bulletin of Mathematical Biophysics, March 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  76. Evolving Reaction-Diffusion Ecosystems with Self-Assembling Structures in Thin Films

    Article • Artificial Life, January 1998, The MIT Press

    Professor John S McCaskill

  77. A Microfow Reactor for Two Dimensional Investigations of In Vitro Amplification Systems

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  78. Miniaturized Electrocaloric Flow Controller for Analyte Multiplexing and Cell/Particle Sorting

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  79. Hardware evolution with a massively parallel dynamicaly reconfigurable computer: POLYP

    Article • January 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  80. Monitoring the amplification of CATCH, a 3SR based cooperatively coupled isothermal amplification system, by fluorimetric methods

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, November 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  81. Steps towards spatially resolved single molecule detection in solution

    Article • Bioimaging, September 1997, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  82. Spatially resolved in vitro molecular ecology

    Article • Biophysical Chemistry, June 1997, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  83. Single Molecule Detection in Microstructures

    Article • Nucleosides and Nucleotides, May 1997, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John S McCaskill

  84. A molecular predator and its prey: coupled isothermal amplification of nucleic acids

    Article • Chemistry & Biology, January 1997, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  85. Cooperative Amplification of Templates by Cross-Hybridization (CATCH)

    Article • FEBS Journal, January 1997, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  86. NGEN: A massively parallel reconfigurable computer for biological simulation: Towards a self-organizing computer

    Article • January 1997, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  87. A cooperatively coupled system based on the 3SR-reaction

    Article • Origins of Life and Evolution of Biospheres, October 1996, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  88. Monte Carlo approach to tissue-cell populations

    Article • December 1995, American Physical Society (APS)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  89. Detector for two-dimensional time-resolved photon counting

    Article • December 1994, SPIE

    Professor John S McCaskill

  90. Laser microtreatment for genetic manipulations and DNA diagnostics by a combination of microbeam and photonic tweezers (laser microbeam trap)

    Article • December 1994, SPIE

    Professor John S McCaskill

  91. NGEN - Configurable computer hardware to simulate long-time self-organization of biopolymers

    Article • Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie, September 1994, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  92. Fluorescence imaging of evolving RNA in capillaries

    Article • Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie, September 1994, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  93. Spatially resolved evolution studies in an open reactor

    Article • Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie, September 1994, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  94. Self-organization of biopolymers. Joint Meeting and International Bunsen Discussion Meeting of the Deutsche Bunsen-Gesellschaft für Physikalische Chemie, Jena, April 10-13th, 1994

    Article • Berichte der Bunsengesellschaft für physikalische Chemie, September 1994, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  95. Template-directed and Template-free RNA Synthesis by Qβ Replicase

    Article • Journal of Molecular Biology, May 1993, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  96. Images of evolution: origin of spontaneous RNA replication waves.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, May 1993, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor John S McCaskill

  97. RNA multi-structure landscapes

    Article • European Biophysics Journal, April 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  98. Equilibrium Distribution of Secondary Structures for Large RNA

    Article • January 1993, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  99. Replication of viruses in a growing plaque: a reaction-diffusion model

    Article • Biophysical Journal, June 1992, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  100. Evolutionary construction algorithms for topology conserving neural nets

    Article • January 1992, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  101. The equilibrium partition function and base pair binding probabilities for RNA secondary structure

    Article • Biopolymers, May 1990, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  102. Traveling waves of in vitro evolving RNA.

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, October 1989, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Professor John S McCaskill

  103. Evolution im Laboratorium

    Article • Nachrichten aus Chemie Technik und Laboratorium, May 1989, Wiley

    Professor John S McCaskill

  104. Molecular quasi-species

    Article • The Journal of Physical Chemistry B, December 1988, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  105. Painlevé solution of the poisson-boltzmann equation for a cylindrical polyelectrolyte in excess salt solution

    Article • Journal of the Chemical Society Faraday Transactions 2 Molecular and Chemical Physics, January 1988, Royal Society of Chemistry

    Professor John S McCaskill

  106. A localization threshold for macromolecular quasispecies from continuously distributed replication rates

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, May 1984, American Institute of Physics

    Professor John S McCaskill

  107. A stochastic theory of macromolecular evolution

    Article • Biological Cybernetics, February 1984, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor John S McCaskill

  108. The role of bound states in electronic transport

    Article • Journal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids, January 1984, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  109. Surface friction constant and range of dynamical interaction between adatoms on metal surfaces

    Article • Surface Science, August 1983, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  110. Surface friction constant and range of dynamical interaction between adatoms on metal surfaces

    Article • Surface Science Letters, August 1983, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  111. Finite concentration fluorescence quenching in the presence of diffusion

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 1983, American Institute of Physics

    Professor John S McCaskill

  112. Review article:electronic transport in short mean-free path liquid metals

    Article • Physics and Chemistry of Liquids, June 1982, Taylor & Francis

    Professor John S McCaskill

  113. On the theory of the Stern–Volmer coefficient for dense fluids

    Article • The Journal of Chemical Physics, June 1981, American Institute of Physics

    Professor John S McCaskill

  114. Fokker-Planck interpretation of picosecond intramolecular dynamics in solutions

    Article • Chemical Physics, December 1979, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  115. Competitive adsorption from binary mixtures: Adhesive hard sphere model

    Article • Journal of Colloid and Interface Science, October 1979, Elsevier

    Professor John S McCaskill

  116. A parallel hardware evolvable computer POLYP

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor John S McCaskill

  117. Flows in micro fluidic networks: from theory to simulation

    Article • Institute of Electrical & Electronics Engineers (IEEE)

    Professor John S McCaskill