Topic: - on December 2, 2002 at 2:46:35 PM CET
Digital image stored in single molecule
An image composed of over 1000 of bits of information can be stored in the atoms of a single molecule, US researchers have shown.
Bing Fung and colleagues at the University of Oklahoma found that the 19 hydrogen atoms in a lone liquid crystal molecule can store at least 1024 bits of information. The data are stored in the complex interaction of the protons' magnetic moments.
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