Building better memories with supramolecular structures that act as tiny magnets
Friday, September 16, 2011 - 10:00
in Physics & Chemistry
In a step towards realizing ultrahigh-density storage devices based on individual molecules behaving as magnets, researchers in Japan have developed a candidate building block -- a supramolecular ferromagnet, which is a caged molecule with magnetic properties. The Japanese research team was led by Takuzo Aida at the RIKEN Advanced Science Institute, Wako, and Kentaro Tashiro at the National Institute for Materials Science, Tsukuba.