{"id":145259,"date":"2022-08-31T12:25:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:25:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/making-computer-chips-act-more-like-brain-cells"},"modified":"2022-08-31T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T17:25:28","slug":"making-computer-chips-act-more-like-brain-cells","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2022\/08\/making-computer-chips-act-more-like-brain-cells","title":{"rendered":"Making Computer Chips Act More like Brain Cells"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/making-computer-chips-act-more-like-brain-cells.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The human brain is an amazing computing machine. Weighing only three pounds or so, it can process information a thousand times faster than the fastest supercomputer, store a thousand times more information than a powerful laptop, and do it all using no more energy than a 20-watt lightbulb.<\/p>\n<p>Researchers are trying to replicate this success using soft, flexible organic materials that can operate like biological neurons and someday might even be able to interconnect with them. Eventually, soft \u201cneuromorphic\u201d computer chips could be implanted directly into the brain, allowing people to control an artificial arm or a computer monitor simply by thinking about it.<\/p>\n<p>Like real neurons \u2014 but unlike conventional computer chips \u2014 these new devices can send and receive both chemical and electrical signals. \u201cYour brain works with chemicals, with neurotransmitters like dopamine and serotonin. Our materials are able to interact electrochemically with them,\u201d says Alberto Salleo, a materials scientist at Stanford University who <a href=\"https:\/\/www.annualreviews.org\/doi\/full\/10.1146\/annurev-matsci-080619-111402\" >wrote about the potential for organic neuromorphic devices<\/a> in the 2021 <em>Annual Review of Materials Research<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The human brain is an amazing computing machine. Weighing only three pounds or so, it can process information a thousand times faster than the fastest supercomputer, store a thousand times more information than a powerful laptop, and do it all using no more energy than a 20-watt lightbulb. Researchers are trying to replicate this success [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":556,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,19,47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biological","category-chemistry","category-neuroscience","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145259","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\/556"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145259"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145259\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}