Foteini Trigka

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Foteini Trigka is a rising researcher at the University of Groningen’s Stratingh Institute for Chemistry, where she works at the frontier of autonomous materials and chemical communication. Her work addresses a fundamental challenge in modern materials science: how to enable multi-component systems to coordinate complex tasks without electromagnetic signals. Trigka’s most cited paper, “Towards Autonomous Materials–Challenges in Chemical Communication” (2024), has garnered 4 citations and lays the groundwork for using molecular signals to replace traditional network communication in robotics and smart materials. This conceptual framework is critical for developing systems that can self-regulate, adapt, and perform collective behaviors through chemical signaling. A second version of this work, also published in 2024, has received 1 citation and was featured as a front cover artwork, visually depicting a robot exchanging chemical signals with its environment. Trigka’s contributions are particularly notable for bridging chemistry and robotics, offering a blueprint for future autonomous systems that operate without electronic components. Her research is essential reading for students and scientists interested in supramolecular chemistry, systems chemistry, and the next generation of intelligent, self-organizing materials.