The memristor "the missing link of electronics" was finally built in 2008, using nothing more than titanium dioxide and metal electrodes in thin films. In 2009 8R/ *6S=&  
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NIST printed them on plastic film. Now a new version involving silicon and silver thin film seems to have advantages. euZ(}+N&  
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Memristors are being used in a US military-funded project trying to make brain- like computers, says Wei Lu, who led the team at the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor that demonstrated the new behaviour (Nano Letters, DOI: 10.1021/nl904092h). fOBN=y6x  
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