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Tiny moving components point to another way to compute
MIT researchers are exploring devices that use the physical response of extremely thin polymers to process and retain information.
The work mimics aspects of how neurons behave and was reported in Science Advances. The researchers describe possible uses in low-power electronics. Those possibilities remain research aims, rather than evidence of a finished replacement for conventional computer chips.
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