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The work presented in this paper is done within the NASCENCE (NAnoCSale Engineering for Novel Computation using Evolution) project which investigates computational properties of nanomaterials and unconventional computing paradigms which can be applied to such materials in order to achieve material computing. The paper presents a novel approach to
modelling computations in one of the nanomaterials considered in the project - single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs)-polymer nanocomposites. Our belief is that the presented approach is more suitable for the experiments within NASCENCE. It takes inspiration from the principles of dynamical hierarchies and can be related to some known cellular computing architectures. Our motivation is given as well as some initial simulation results based on a simplified model built according to the proposed approach. The results show that the proposed approach captures well the conductivity dependence on the concentration of carbon nanotubes and varying electric potential in the material.