Biomimetic Devices for Neuro-Inspired Applications

A special issue of Biomimetics (ISSN 2313-7673).

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Dear Colleagues,

This Special Issue welcomes contributions from researchers working in the field of neuromorphic computing, material science, and electronic engineering interested in sharing recent theoretical, experimental, review, and perspective contributions. “Biomimetic Devices for Neuro-Inspired Applications” will describe recent advances in the field of neuromorphic computing based on biomimetic devices realized using organic and inorganic materials and neuromorphic analog circuits.

In particular, the topics of interest include, but are not limited to the following:

  • Neuromorphic functions at the device level;
  • Biomimetic devices;
  • Bioelectronic interfaces;
  • Biointerfacing with biomimetic devices;
  • Bioelectronics textile and wearable biosensors;
  • Materials and interfaces for biomimetic electronics;
  • Hybrid biological/electronic devices.

Dr. Silvia Battistoni
Dr. Paschalis Gkoupidenis
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Keywords

  • Organic neuromorphic electronics
  • Inorganic neuromorphic electronics
  • Biological neural processing
  • Neuromorphic computing
  • Bioelectronics
  • Neuromorphic analog circuits

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Neuro-Inspired Signal Processing in Ferromagnetic Nanofibers
by Tomasz Blachowicz, Jacek Grzybowski, Pawel Steblinski and Andrea Ehrmann
Biomimetics 2021, 6(2), 32; https://doi.org/10.3390/biomimetics6020032 - 26 May 2021
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Computers nowadays have different components for data storage and data processing, making data transfer between these units a bottleneck for computing speed. Therefore, so-called cognitive (or neuromorphic) computing approaches try combining both these tasks, as is done in the human brain, to make [...] Read more.
Computers nowadays have different components for data storage and data processing, making data transfer between these units a bottleneck for computing speed. Therefore, so-called cognitive (or neuromorphic) computing approaches try combining both these tasks, as is done in the human brain, to make computing faster and less energy-consuming. One possible method to prepare new hardware solutions for neuromorphic computing is given by nanofiber networks as they can be prepared by diverse methods, from lithography to electrospinning. Here, we show results of micromagnetic simulations of three coupled semicircle fibers in which domain walls are excited by rotating magnetic fields (inputs), leading to different output signals that can be used for stochastic data processing, mimicking biological synaptic activity and thus being suitable as artificial synapses in artificial neural networks. Full article
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