By 2020 the semiconductor industry wants a memory device that can store a trillion bits of information in an area the size of a postage stamp. As companies race towards this goal, chemists are coming up with an unusual approach. Philip Ball reports.
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Ball, P. A switch in time. Nature 445, 362–363 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1038/445362a
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