Flexible memristor memory chips soon to become reality

Essential Linkage: How the next-gen memristors will be bendy.

Memristors are the latest buzzword in the memory scene, and while they're an incredibly new tech right now they've been in development for almost forty years.

So fascinating and useful is the memristor that we even devoted an entire X-ray article to it last year:

Like a capacitor, a memristor has a ‘memory', but unlike a capacitor the memory is a function of the fluctuation in current that changes its resistance. Said another way, a memristor will ‘remember' the last charge that passed through it.

The tech itself is great for computing, but it also has a great potential for medical monitoring - except for the fact that people like to move, rendering rigid chips less than useful.

Thanks to the engineers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, we now have a special kind of memristor that can be printed out as a flexible sheet.

Sheets are made of spun liquid titanium dioxide and can withstand flexing of over 4000 times.

For a little more on bendy memristors head over to TFOT, and post below with anything you'd like some bendy memory in.