Magnetism guides individual atoms

Potential for controlled atomic movement in nanotechnology and data storage

12-Jun-2025 - Normally, individual atoms move on surfaces rather randomly - influenced primarily by the symmetry of the surface. This process, known as "diffusion", plays a central role in the production of semiconductors, in catalysts or in the construction of nanostructures. Researchers have long suspected ...

New insights into bonding nature of antimony – implications for materials research

The findings could be used to optimise material properties

24-Jan-2025 - A new study that provides unprecedented insights into the chemical bonding of antimony could have a profound impact on materials research. The collaboration between scientists from Leipzig University, RWTH Aachen University and the DESY synchrotron in Hamburg combined experimental measurements ...

Data archiving with molecules

Reading synthetic polymers as data storage more efficiently

30-Oct-2024 - More and more data needs to be stored, often long-term. Synthetic polymers are an alternative to conventional storage media, as they retain stored information with significantly lower space and energy requirements. However, mass spectrometric data readout limits the length and thus the storage ...

Advancing Catalysis Research: Essential Data Practices for Future Scientific Success

This research promising to accelerate discoveries and innovations in chemistry and beyond

21-Oct-2024 - Researchers from the Department of Inorganic Chemistry at the Fritz Haber Institute of the Max Planck Society have made a groundbreaking advancement in the field of data management for catalysis research. Their latest study, “Advancing catalysis research through FAIR data principles implemented ...

A breakthrough discovery paves the way for new electronics with chiral materials

Orbital angular momentum monopoles could revolutionize future information technology

01-Oct-2024 - Orbital angular momentum monopoles, which have been predicted to offer significant advantages for next generation of electronic devices, have now been observed for the first time in chiral materials by scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Microstructure Physics in Halle and their ...

Paving the way to extremely fast, compact computer memory

24-Jul-2024 - For decades, scientists have been studying a group of unusual materials called multiferroics that could be useful for a range of applications including computer memory, chemical sensors and quantum computers. In a study published in Nature, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin and ...

How to keep data safe on the long run

Team presents new path to long-term data storage based on atomic-scale defects

08-Apr-2024 - With the development of the internet, social media or cloud computing, the amount of data created worldwide on a daily basis is sky-rocketing. This calls for new technologies which could provide higher storage densities combined with secure long-term data archiving far beyond the capabilities of ...

Data Storage of Tomorrow

Supramolecular memristors based on bistable [2]catenanes

04-Oct-2023 - In these times of big data and artificial intelligence, the usual data storage media are not sufficient. The next generation of data storage must meet the demand for high-density storage and energy efficiency. One such technology is resistive random-access memory (RRAM), which stores data through ...

Using chirality for faster, smaller, and more efficient data storage devices

Researchers present an innovative approach for enhancing electronic devices

28-Oct-2022 - Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) are pursuing a completely new and unconventional strategy to improve the way data can be processed and – in particular – stored. Together with their partners at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, they have been granted funding by the Carl ...

Harvard researchers use dyes to store data

Chemists’ dye method holds promise for long-term data storage — thousands of years or more: Start-up is pursuing opportunities for partnerships

15-Oct-2021 - In the digital age, every byte of data needs to go somewhere — and preferably stay there a long time. That last part is a major problem when it comes to data-storage systems, which typically last less than 20 years. A group of Harvard chemists is trying to solve the issue with an innovation that ...