This will simplify the design process and allows a near-optimal composite phase change material. Researchers discover a new way to design composite phase change materials that has the ability to store energy as heat.
Adding small quantities of the element boron to vanadium dioxide makes the material function like a synapse, researchers report.
Each waking moment, our brain processes a massive amount of data to make sense of the outside world. Thus, by imitating the way the human brain solves everyday problems, neuromorphic systems have tremendous potential to revolutionize big data analysis and pattern recognition problems that are a struggle for current digital technologies.
For artificial systems to be more brain-like, however, they need to replicate how nerve cells communicate at their terminals, called the synapses.
In the study in
Journal of the American Chemical Society, researchers described a new material that captures the pattern of electrical activity at the synapse.
Chameleon-Like Material Spiked With Boron Comes Closer To Mimicking Brain Cells
December 13, 2020
In a new study, Texas A&M researchers in the Department of Materials Science and Engineering describe a new material that comes close to mimicking how brain cells perform computations.
Each waking moment, our brain processes a massive amount of data to make sense of the outside world. By imitating the way the human brain solves everyday problems, neuromorphic systems have tremendous potential to revolutionize big data analysis and pattern recognition problems that are a struggle for current digital technologies.
But for artificial systems to be more brain-like, they need to replicate how nerve cells communicate at their terminals, called the synapses.