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Transient Potentials Transmitted by an Artificial Electrochemical Synapse

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 February 2011

T. Triffet,
P. Calvert and
T. W. Huntoon
T. Triffet
Affiliation:
NASA Space Engineering Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA.
P. Calvert
Affiliation:
NASA Space Engineering Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA.
T. W. Huntoon
Affiliation:
NASA Space Engineering Research Center, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85712, USA.
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Abstract

Experiments have been made with a simple device consisting of two asymmetrically insulated electrodes separated by a thin electrolytic layer. This device has been found to exhibit a wide variety of transient potentials similar to those transmitted by biological synapses, thus suggesting the possibility of constructing a network of similar devices which simulates the behaviour of a biological neural network.

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