Neuromorphic Computing with Microfluidic Memristors
Abstract
Conical microfluidic channels filled with electrolytes exhibit volatile memristive behavior, offering a promising foundation for energy-efficient, neuromorphic computing. Here, we integrate these iontronic channels as additional nonlinear element in nonlinear Shinriki-inspired oscillators and demonstrate that they exhibit alternating chaotic and non-chaotic dynamics across a broad frequency range. Exploiting this behavior, we construct XOR
and NAND
gates by coupling three "Memriki" oscillators, and we further realize the full set of standard logic gates through combinations of NAND
gates. Our results establish a new paradigm for iontronic computing and open avenues for scalable, low-power logical operations in microfluidic and bio-inspired systems.