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Conundrum
Sat Jul 16 2011, 06:08AM Print
Conundrum Registered Member #96 Joined: Thu Feb 09 2006, 05:37PM
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Hi all.

Saw the article Link2 on IEEE Spectrum about GaIn + agar layers doped with polymer and acyrlic acid.

Found my gallium stash :) and some other bits I needed including the agar.

Reckon that boric acid would work for one of the layers rather than acrylic acid?
Also I am having a lot of problems sourcing the other component i.e. that polymer which seems to be essential.

It doesen't need to last long, just prove that it works.

Best analogy is that this behaves somewhat like a Metal ion battery with two identical electrodes. The gallium selectively oxidises at the junction of one agar plate but not the other, forming a diode-like structure.
As the oxide layer changes thickness so does the resistance, reversibly due to the one way effect.

Without these two layers one oxide layer would balance the other and there would be no net resistance change.

-A
1310796479 96 FT0 Memhackistors
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Bored Chemist
Sat Jul 16 2011, 06:51PM
Bored Chemist Registered Member #193 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
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A copy of the article would make this a whole lot clearer.
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Conundrum
Tue Jul 19 2011, 06:59AM
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Update:- turns out that the polymer is critical. Does anyone here happen to have any laying around?

thanks!
-A
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Bored Chemist
Tue Jul 19 2011, 06:33PM
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Any particular polymer?
I have a used crisp packet you can have.
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Conundrum
Tue Jul 19 2011, 06:47PM
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Polyethyleneimine seems to be the needed ingredient.

-A
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Bored Chemist
Tue Jul 19 2011, 08:33PM
Bored Chemist Registered Member #193 Joined: Fri Feb 17 2006, 07:04AM
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That's a bit specialist (and more than a little toxic).

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