{"id":144598,"date":"2022-08-22T19:22:29","date_gmt":"2022-08-23T00:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/no-other-material-behaves-in-this-way-scientist-identify-a-compound-with-a-memory"},"modified":"2022-08-22T19:22:29","modified_gmt":"2022-08-23T00:22:29","slug":"no-other-material-behaves-in-this-way-scientist-identify-a-compound-with-a-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/no-other-material-behaves-in-this-way-scientist-identify-a-compound-with-a-memory","title":{"rendered":"\u2018No Other Material Behaves in This Way\u2019: Scientist Identify a Compound With a Memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/no-other-material-behaves-in-this-way-scientist-identify-a-compound-with-a-memory2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>It isn\u2019t alive, and has no structures even approaching the complexity of the brain, but a compound called vanadium dioxide is capable of \u2018remembering\u2019 previous external stimuli, researchers have found.<\/p>\n<p>This is the first time this ability has been identified in a material; but it may not be the last. The discovery has some pretty intriguing implications for the development of electronic devices, in particular data processing and storage.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHere we report electronically accessible long-lived structural states in vanadium dioxide that can provide a scheme for data storage and processing,\u201d write a team of researchers led by electrical engineer Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo of \u00c9cole Polytechnique F\u00e9d\u00e9rale de Lausanne in Switzerland <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41928-022-00812-z\">in their paper<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It isn\u2019t alive, and has no structures even approaching the complexity of the brain, but a compound called vanadium dioxide is capable of \u2018remembering\u2019 previous external stimuli, researchers have found. This is the first time this ability has been identified in a material; but it may not be the last. The discovery has some pretty [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144598","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144598","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\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=144598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144598\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=144598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=144598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=144598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}