Nanotechnology-Enabled Unconventional Computing [Guest Editorial]

The history of computing is inextricably bounded and heavily dependent on materials technology advances, especially nanotechnology. During the last decade, we have witnessed significant nanotechnology science discoveries from memristive and spin-orbit torque materials, carbon nanotubes to graphene, and biomaterials that have enabled several novel computing ways usually entitled under the generic term of unconventional computing. A common characteristic of these unconventional computing paradigms is their intrinsic capability to outperform, in terms of specific figures of merit, traditional von Neumann related computing architectures.