Memristive response and capacitive spiking in the aqueous ion transport through 2D nanopore arrays
arXiv:2310.09439 · doi:10.1021/acs.jpclett.3c03156
Abstract
In living organisms, information is processed in interconnected symphonies of ionic currents spiking through protein ion channels. As a result of dynamically switching their conductive states, ion channels exhibit a variety of current-voltage nonlinearities and memory effects. Fueled by the promise of computing architectures entirely different from von Neumann, recent attempts to identify and harness similar phenomena in artificial nanofluidic environments focused on demonstrating analog circuit elements with memory. Here we explore aqueous ionic transport through two-dimensional (2D) membranes featuring arrays of ion-trapping crown-ether-like pores. We demonstrate that for aqueous salts featuring ions with different ion-pore binding affinities, memristive effects emerge through coupling between the time-delayed state of the system and its transport properties. We also demonstrate a nanopore array that behaves as a capacitor with a strain-tunable built-in barrier, yielding behaviors ranging from current spiking to ohmic response. By focusing on the illustrative underlying mechanisms, we demonstrate that realistically observable memory effects may be achieved in nanofluidic systems featuring crown-porous 2D membranes.
arXiv comment12 pages, 3 figures + supplement (4 pages + 2 figures)
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