Although interactions are at the core of most advances in nanoscale science, research projects usually study just a few interactions at a time. Now researchers have come up with a design strategy to make and study networks of billions of interacting nanowires using a combination of top-down and bottom-up fabrication and traditional electronic measurement technology. The nanowires are adapted to behave like neural synapses and the emergent characteristics of the networks are analogous to adaptability and memory, with possible applications in alternative types of computing…………
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