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Science 24 November 2000:
Vol. 290. no. 5496, pp. 1524 - 1525
DOI: 10.1126/science.290.5496.1524b
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Coaxing Molecular Devices to Build Themselves

Dennis Normile

NAGOYA--Nagoya University chemist Makoto Fujita and others are using a technique called directed self-assembly, which exploits the chemical and electrical bonds that hold natural molecules together, to get molecules to form desired nanometer-scale structures. This could lead to computer logic and memory devices up to 100 times smaller than their current counterparts. Self-assembled molecules might also serve as cages to hold and deliver unstable medical compounds, and as crucibles for chemical reactions.

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