An interesting article published at HPC Wire refers about the successful demonstration by a team of UCLA and California Institute of Technology chemists of a large-scale, "ultra-dense" memory device that stores information using reconfigurable molecular switches.
According to the scientific team, this research represents an important step toward the creation of molecular computers that are much smaller and could be more powerful than today's silicon-based computers.
Some opinion of involved scientists are reported, and a lot of "technical" jargon can be read in the article. Even if it's interesting by a scientific point of view, I think that we are rather far from a practical application of these technologies.
As usual, feel free to discuss about this on our forum.
