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ArticleNature communications2023

An artificial synapse based on molecular junctions.

Yuchun Zhang, Lin Liu, Bin Tu, Bin Cui, Jiahui Guo, Xing Zhao, Jingyu Wang, Yong Yan

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Article in Nature communications, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 15 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

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15 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Yuchun Zhang *CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-4201-8407
Lin Liu *CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.
Bin Tu *CAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.
Bin Cui *School of Physics, Shandong University, Jinan, 250100, China.ORCID 0000-0002-7240-005X
Jiahui GuoCAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.
Xing ZhaoCAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.ORCID 0000-0002-9685-3950
Jingyu WangCAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China.
Yong YanCAS Key Laboratory of Nanosystem and Hierarchical Fabrication, CAS Center for Excellence in Nanoscience, National Center for Nanoscience and Technology, Beijing, 100190, China. yany@nanoctr.cn.ORCID 0000-0002-5760-7423

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Shrinking the size of the electronic synapse to molecular length-scale, for example, an artificial synapse directly fabricated by using individual or monolayer molecules, is important for maximizing the integration density, reducing the energy consumption, and enabling functionalities not easily achieved by other synaptic materials. Here, we show that the conductance of the self-assembled peptide molecule monolayer could be dynamically modulated by placing electrical biases, enabling us to implement basic synaptic functions. Both short-term plasticity (e.g., paired-pulse facilitation) and long-term plasticity (e.g., spike-timing-dependent plasticity) are demonstrated in a single molecular synapse. The dynamic current response is due to a combination of both chemical gating and coordination effects between Ag

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Neuronal PlasticitySynapsesElectronicsNanotechnology

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PMCPMC9842743

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