#vandium

[materialsscienceandengineering]

Researchers Discover a Material With Brain-Like Learning Capabilities

Vanadium Dioxide has the ability to “remember” the entire history of past environmental stimuli.

During his research on phase transitions in Vanadium Dioxide (VO2), Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, a Ph.D. student at Ecole Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne’s (EPFL) Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), made an unexpected finding. When relaxed at room temperature, VO2 has an insulating phase and experiences a sharp insulator-to-metal transition at 68 °C (154 °F), where its lattice structure changes.

According to Samizadeh Nikoo, VO2 has a volatile memory: “the material reverts back to the insulating state right after removing the excitation.” He set out to find how long it takes for VO2 to change from one state to another for his thesis. However, his investigation took a different turn: after collecting hundreds of measurements, he discovered a memory effect in the material’s structure.

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So today I’ll run my 23rd Half marathon. #jordan #sodium #psalm23 #vandium #maxheadroom #x23 #logan Caesar was stabbed 23 time and the big Lebowski used lane 23 for bowling. And the Beatles had some dude on the cover wearing the number 23. Did I forget anything? #blackmenrun #running #nuunlife #humagel #pushingthelimits

[curiousspyglass]

Vanadium

He was convinced that there was an eternal oscillation inside of him, a mathematical sinusoidal law governing his highs and his lows. Though this function had no solution, no domain, no range. He would never be able to determine its pattern, its nature, he could only be sure of one truth; that each moment of ecstasy brought inevitable sadness, each period of despair, an era of hope.