{"id":194127,"date":"2025-10-12T03:29:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:29:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194127\/"},"modified":"2025-10-12T03:29:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T03:29:06","slug":"op-ed-very-big-deal-monash-university-major-achievement-with-nanofluidic-chip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/194127\/","title":{"rendered":"Op-Ed: Very big deal &#8211; Monash University major achievement with nanofluidic chip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Brain preserved in formaldehyde. \u2014 Gaetan Lee (CC BY 2.0)<\/p>\n<p>You hear a lot about \u201corganic\u201d or semi-organic computing. It\u2019s generally considered to be a necessary step for AI and future computing. Getting this idea off the ground is the main issue.<\/p>\n<p>We now have <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-10-scientists-nanofluidic-chip-brain-memory.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a serious step forward courtesy of Monash University<\/a>. The new nanofluidic chip has been unveiled with a commendable lack of hype and some very solid electronic credentials. This is a metal organic framework, a no ifs and buts working model, as published in Phys.org on the above link and Science Advances.<\/p>\n<p>The outcome is <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2025-10-scientists-nanofluidic-chip-brain-memory.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">a very elegant layout of a chip <\/a>with the ability to \u201cremember previous signals\u201d. That\u2019s a neural capability. If you just stampeded dutifully to the expression \u201cneural networks\u201d, bingo.<\/p>\n<p>There\u2019s an inherent level of added efficiency in this approach. Nano means much less energy demand, too. This thing is already solving problems before it gets on the market.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencedirect.com\/topics\/engineering\/nanofluid\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">nanofluid<\/a> is a solution. It can be composed of any range of materials. In this case, it manages protons from \u201cnon-linear\u201d sources. That means it manages inputs of whatever values from sources. Protons, of course, mean positive charges. Hence the very high electronic range of uses this chip can clearly manage. It mimics the Off and On switches in transistors, too, meaning it can easily dovetail with binary codes.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019d like to spend a few centuries pondering the possible applications of this idea, that\u2019s exactly what you\u2019ll be doing. So will the entire tech sector, if it has a working brain cell that needs something to do. There are any number of functional upsides to this chip and its likely descendants.<\/p>\n<p>In a slightly circuitous way, it <a href=\"https:\/\/www.digitaljournal.com\/tech-science\/op-ed-dishbrain-neurons-play-pong-sentient-or-not\/article\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">reminds me of the fascinating Dishbrain<\/a>, the enterprising neural tissue that learned to play Pong. We are developing an ongoing avalanche of organic elements in computing.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people will love this, with good reason. It\u2019s a major problem solver for advanced circuitry, core functions, and much higher efficiency at lower energy costs. There are any number of applications for future tech.<\/p>\n<p>Even to scale, a coin-sized chip has a lot going for it. It\u2019s much easier to handle. The chip\u2019s almost Baroque symmetrical structure makes it pretty easy to work with.<\/p>\n<p>Watch this tech. It\u2019s a very unambiguous large step in all the right directions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Brain preserved in formaldehyde. \u2014 Gaetan Lee (CC BY 2.0) You hear a lot about \u201corganic\u201d or semi-organic&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":194128,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[4323,84829,59442,84830,84831,86,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-194127","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-computing","8":"tag-computing","9":"tag-dishbrain","10":"tag-monash-university","11":"tag-nanofluidic-chip","12":"tag-organic-computing","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom","16":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=194127"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194127\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/194128"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}