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Science 3 May 1996:
Vol. 272. no. 5262, pp. 698 - 699
DOI: 10.1126/science.272.5262.698
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Perspectives

Michel Verdaguer

Molecular electronics--the storage and processing of data on individual molecules--may be one path toward increased storage density and speed. In his Perspective, Verdaguer discusses work reported by Sato et al. (p. 704) in this issue on light-induced changes in the magnetic properties of various preparations of Prussian blue. This leads to switching of the long-range magnetic ordering of the compound and may point the way to molecular information processing.

Laboratoire de Chimie des Métaux de Transition, URA CNRS 419, Université Pierre et Marie Curie, 75252 Paris, France. E-mail: miv@ccr.jussieu.fr


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