Researchers from the University of Bath, Shandong University and Qilu University met at Shandong University in Jinan, China, over a period of 4 days (5-9 January 2026) to discuss recent advances in neuromorphic materials and devices and to strengthen ongoing collaborations. These exchanges build on joint publications by Prof Limei Zheng from the Physics department at Shandong University, Prof Le Zhao from Qilu University, Prof. Alain Nogaret from the department of Physics at the University of Bath, and their teams, on Adaptive Solid-State Synapses (2025) and Ferroelectric Synapses for High Performance Neuromorphic Computing (2022).
Neuromorphics is an emerging research area underpinning AI and bioelectronic medicine. It currently stimulates a wealth of new ideas from Physicists for emulating neurons and synapses with novel solid-state devices based of novel ferroelectric materials, synthetic nanomagnets and semiconductors. A workshop on neuromorphic devices for brain inspired computing was organised on January 6 under the auspices of Shandong University (Associate Dean Prof Bai and Prof Zheng) that covered following topics:
- Alain Nogaret (University of Bath): Neuromorphic Central Pattern Generators for Bioelectronic medicine
- Yufen Tian (Shandong University): Field-free magnetization switching in synthetic antiferromagnets and its applications in neuromorphic computing
- Xinglong Ye (Shandong University): Giant voltage control of magnetism: from single particles to coupled networks
- Le Zhao (Qilu University of Technology): Ferroelectric memristor for brain inspired computing
The participants also discussed latest advances in the field of dynamical systems and computational methods to train such devices to perform neural computation and to deliver novel therapies through bioelectronic medicine.