Slime mould memristors

Gale, Ella; Adamatzky, Andrew; de Lacy Costello, Ben

Abstract

In laboratory experiments we demonstrate that protoplasmic tubes of acellular slime mould \emph{Physarum polycephalum} show current versus voltage profiles consistent with memristive systems and that the effect is due to the living protoplasm of the mould. This complements previous findings on memristive properties of other living systems (human skin and blood) and contributes to development of self-growing bio-electronic circuits. Distinctive asymmetric V-I curves which were occasionally observed when the internal current is on the same order as the driven current, are well-modelled by the concept of active memristors.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 19, 2014
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2015
• Deposit Date: Feb 8, 2016
• Publicly Available Date: Feb 9, 2016
• Journal: BioNanoScience
• Print ISSN: 2191-1630
• Electronic ISSN: 2191-1649
• Publisher: Springer (part of Springer Nature)
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 1-8
• Keywords: emerging technologies, slime mould
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/837525
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.​1007/​s12668-014-0160-7
• Additional Information: Additional Information : The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.​1007/​s12668-014-0160-7
• Contract Date: Feb 9, 2016