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Published online 5 December 2007 | Nature 450, 777 (2007) | doi:10.1038/450777a
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Theoreticians have combined their expertise to form a network to help other scientists design materials or understand biological pathways. Katharine Sanderson reports.
For the past three months Joerg Schaefer, a physicist at the University of Würzburg in Germany, has been waiting for a group of theoretical spectroscopists to calculate the exact position of gold and platinum atoms in nanowires made from single atoms of the metals. When laid out on a semiconductor surface, the wires could potentially be used to transfer data at high speeds in microprocessors by acting as switches.
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