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  • New Material May Be Neural Net Magic

    From c186282@c186282@nnada.net to comp.os.linux.misc on Sun Jan 4 18:40:03 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    https://phys.org/news/2025-12-encoding-intelligence-molecular.html

    In a collaboration spanning chemistry, physics, and
    electrical engineering, a team led by Sreetosh Goswami,
    Assistant Professor at the Center for Nano Science and
    Engineering (CeNSE) has created tiny molecular devices
    that can be tweaked to perform diverse functions. The
    same device can behave as a memory unit, a logic gate,
    a selector, an analog processor or an electronic
    synapse, depending on how it is stimulated.

    "It is rare to see adaptability at this level in electronic
    materials," says Sreetosh Goswami. "Here, chemical design
    meets computation, not as an analogy, but as a working
    principle."

    This shapeshifting is powered by unique chemistry used to
    build and tweak these devices. The team synthesized 17
    carefully designed ruthenium complexes and analyzed how
    minute variations in molecular geometry and ionic surroundings
    sculpted electron behavior. By carefully tweaking the ligands
    and ions arranged around the ruthenium molecules, the authors
    showed that the same device can exhibit many types of dynamic behaviorrCoswitching from digital to analog, for instancerCoacross
    a wide range of conductance values.

    . . .

    Hey, this sounds a LOT like what that AI segment has
    been looking for ! No point in using large complex
    circuits to fake some aspects of a neuron, too big.
    Something that can be tweaked to do many roles, all
    in a single device, is MUCH better.

    Now the question is whether something can be fabricated
    so something simple like an electric field can switch
    such devices between two or more 'modes'.

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  • From The Natural Philosopher@tnp@invalid.invalid to comp.os.linux.misc on Mon Jan 5 11:30:50 2026
    From Newsgroup: comp.os.linux.misc

    On 04/01/2026 23:40, c186282 wrote:
    In a collaboration spanning chemistry, physics, and
    electrical engineering, a team led by Sreetosh Goswami,
    Assistant Professor at the Center for Nano Science and
    Engineering (CeNSE) has created tiny molecular devices
    that can be tweaked to perform diverse functions. The
    same device can behave as a memory unit, a logic gate,
    a selector, an analog processor or an electronic
    synapse, depending on how it is stimulated.

    It's called a transistor
    --
    There is nothing a fleet of dispatchable nuclear power plants cannot do
    that cannot be done worse and more expensively and with higher carbon emissions and more adverse environmental impact by adding intermittent renewable energy.

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