{"id":219770,"date":"2025-08-09T16:06:26","date_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:06:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/programmable-2d-nanochannels-achieve-brain-like-memory"},"modified":"2025-08-09T16:06:26","modified_gmt":"2025-08-09T21:06:26","slug":"programmable-2d-nanochannels-achieve-brain-like-memory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/08\/programmable-2d-nanochannels-achieve-brain-like-memory","title":{"rendered":"Programmable 2D nanochannels achieve brain-like memory"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/programmable-2d-nanochannels-achieve-brain-like-memory.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at The University of Manchester\u2019s National Graphene Institute have developed a new class of programmable nanofluidic memristors that mimic the memory functions of the human brain, paving the way for next-generation neuromorphic computing.<\/p>\n<p>In a study <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-61649-6\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, scientists from the National Graphene Institute, Photon Science Institute and the Department of Physics and Astronomy have demonstrated how two-dimensional (2D) nanochannels can be tuned to exhibit all four theoretically predicted types of memristive behavior, something never before achieved in a single device.<\/p>\n<p>This study not only reveals new insights into ionic <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/memory\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">memory<\/a> mechanisms but also has the potential to enable emerging applications in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/low-power\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">low-power<\/a> ionic logic, neuromorphic components, and adaptive chemical sensing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at The University of Manchester\u2019s National Graphene Institute have developed a new class of programmable nanofluidic memristors that mimic the memory functions of the human brain, paving the way for next-generation neuromorphic computing. In a study published in Nature Communications, scientists from the National Graphene Institute, Photon Science Institute and the Department of Physics [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219770","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219770","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=219770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219770\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}