{"id":144590,"date":"2022-08-22T17:22:19","date_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-discover-a-material-that-can-learn-like-the-brain"},"modified":"2022-08-22T17:22:19","modified_gmt":"2022-08-22T22:22:19","slug":"researchers-discover-a-material-that-can-learn-like-the-brain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/researchers-discover-a-material-that-can-learn-like-the-brain","title":{"rendered":"Researchers discover a material that can learn like the brain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/researchers-discover-a-material-that-can-learn-like-the-brain2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>EPFL researchers have discovered that Vanadium Dioxide (VO<sub>2<\/sub>), a compound used in electronics, is capable of \u201cremembering\u201d the entire history of previous external stimuli. This is the first material to be identified as possessing this property, although there could be others.<\/p>\n<p>Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, a Ph.D. student at EPFL\u2019s Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), made a chance discovery during his research on <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/phase+transitions\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">phase transitions<\/a> in Vanadium Dioxide (VO<sub>2<\/sub>). VO<sub>2<\/sub> has an insulating phase when relaxed at <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/room+temperature\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">room temperature<\/a>, and undergoes a steep insulator-to-metal transition at 68 \u00b0C, where its lattice structure changes. Classically, VO<sub>2<\/sub> exhibits a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/volatile+memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">volatile memory<\/a>: \u201cthe material reverts back to the insulating state right after removing the excitation\u201d says Samizadeh Nikoo. For his thesis, he set out to discover how long it takes for VO<sub>2<\/sub> to transition from one state to another. But his research led him down a different path: after taking hundreds of measurements, he observed a <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">memory<\/a> effect in the material\u2019s structure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>EPFL researchers have discovered that Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), a compound used in electronics, is capable of \u201cremembering\u201d the entire history of previous external stimuli. This is the first material to be identified as possessing this property, although there could be others. Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, a Ph.D. student at EPFL\u2019s Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":599,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1635,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144590","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-materials","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144590","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/599"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144590"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144590\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144590"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144590"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144590"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}