02 April 2011

Memristor | Human Blood Used To Make Electronic Component

Photo: An image of a circuit with 17 memristors captured by an atomic force microscope
R. Stanley Williams/HP Labs

A team of engineers in India have created a physical model of a memristor using human blood. From io9:
... A memristor is a more sophisticated version of a resistor. The first syllable of its name comes from the word 'memory'. Instead of resisting at the same level each time, a memristor resists at a different level each time, depending on the last voltage that was applied to it.

Circuits with a memristor can adapt and change each time a new voltage is applied to them. They can be used in logic circuits and signal processing. Other memristors have been invented - the first one in 2008 - but none before have been, literally, a combination of human and electronic parts. The new memristor's inventors have tested it, successfully, both with tubes full of stationary blood and tubes of flowing blood. Both memristors have the ability to remember the last applied voltage for five minutes.
The singularity draws ever closer ...

Inderscience Publishers: Human blood liquid memristor

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