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A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold
Our research is aimed at gaining a better understanding of the electronic properties of organisms in order to engineer novel bioelectronic systems and computing architectures based on biology. This specific paper focuses on harnessing the unicellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum to develop bio-m...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29155754 http://dx.doi.org/10.3791/56076 |
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description | Our research is aimed at gaining a better understanding of the electronic properties of organisms in order to engineer novel bioelectronic systems and computing architectures based on biology. This specific paper focuses on harnessing the unicellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum to develop bio-memristors (or biological memristors) and bio-computing devices. The memristor is a resistor that possesses memory. It is the 4th fundamental passive circuit element (the other three are the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor), which is paving the way for the design of new kinds of computing systems; e.g., computers that might relinquish the distinction between storage and a central processing unit. When applied with an AC voltage, the current vs. voltage characteristic of a memristor is a pinched hysteresis loop. It has been shown that P. polycephalum produces pinched hysteresis loops under AC voltages and displays adaptive behavior that is comparable with the functioning of a memristor. This paper presents the method that we developed for implementing bio-memristors with P. polycephalum and introduces the development of a receptacle to culture the organism, which facilitates its deployment as an electronic circuit component. Our method has proven to decrease growth time, increase component lifespan, and standardize electrical observations. |
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spelling | pubmed-57552962018-01-19 A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold Miranda, Eduardo Reck Braund, Edward J Vis Exp Bioengineering Our research is aimed at gaining a better understanding of the electronic properties of organisms in order to engineer novel bioelectronic systems and computing architectures based on biology. This specific paper focuses on harnessing the unicellular slime mold Physarum polycephalum to develop bio-memristors (or biological memristors) and bio-computing devices. The memristor is a resistor that possesses memory. It is the 4th fundamental passive circuit element (the other three are the resistor, the capacitor, and the inductor), which is paving the way for the design of new kinds of computing systems; e.g., computers that might relinquish the distinction between storage and a central processing unit. When applied with an AC voltage, the current vs. voltage characteristic of a memristor is a pinched hysteresis loop. It has been shown that P. polycephalum produces pinched hysteresis loops under AC voltages and displays adaptive behavior that is comparable with the functioning of a memristor. This paper presents the method that we developed for implementing bio-memristors with P. polycephalum and introduces the development of a receptacle to culture the organism, which facilitates its deployment as an electronic circuit component. Our method has proven to decrease growth time, increase component lifespan, and standardize electrical observations. MyJove Corporation 2017-11-02 /pmc/articles/PMC5755296/ /pubmed/29155754 http://dx.doi.org/10.3791/56076 Text en Copyright © 2017, Journal of Visualized Experiments http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License. To view a copy of this license, visithttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/us/ |
spellingShingle | Bioengineering Miranda, Eduardo Reck Braund, Edward A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold |
title | A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold |
title_full | A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold |
title_fullStr | A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold |
title_full_unstemmed | A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold |
title_short | A Method for Growing Bio-memristors from Slime Mold |
title_sort | method for growing bio-memristors from slime mold |
topic | Bioengineering |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5755296/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29155754 http://dx.doi.org/10.3791/56076 |
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