Interesting Engineering
Created: Aug 22, 2022 11:39 AM
Researchers from École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne (EPFL) have discovered that vanadium dioxide (VO2) is capable of “remembering” the entire history of previous external stimuli.
Vanadium dioxide marks the first material EPFL researchers have discovered that identified as possessing this property.
The study was published in Nature today.
Mohammad Samizadeh Nikoo, a Ph.D. student at EPFL’s Power and Wide-band-gap Electronics Research Laboratory (POWERlab), made a chance discovery during his research on phase transitions in vanadium dioxide (VO2).