Nanotech Could Store 250 DVDs


	Nanotech Could Store 250 DVDs

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/a6a280c2-04f9-491f-bdd3-c6f1f3b881c6/32ACD689-2DED-476C-86C0-D3984321A198/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/22/self-organizing-nanotech-could-store-250-dvds-on-one-coin-size-surface/" href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/22/self-organizing-nanotech-could-store-250-dvds-on-one-coin-size-surface/" style="font-size: 11px;">blogs.discovermagazine.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/22/self-organizing-nanotech-could-store-250-dvds-on-one-coin-size-surface/">Sapphire crystals may be the next material to transform the electronics industry, thanks to <A href="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/tag/nanotechnology/">nanotechnology</A> researchers who have announced a new way of storing data that would fit the contents of 250 DVDs on a coin-sized surface. The study, <A target="_blank" href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5917/1030">published in </A><EM><A target="_blank" href="http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/abstract/323/5917/1030">Science</A></EM>, illustrates how nanoscale elements can organize themselves over a large sheet of semiconductor film. The researchers expect that when applied to electronic media, their discovery will improve the efficiency of data storage, savings which can then be transferred to improve other pieces of electronics besides just storage, like high-definition screens and solar cells.</blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/22/self-organizing-nanotech-could-store-250-dvds-on-one-coin-size-surface/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/blogs.discovermagazine.com/img/8E192955-9818-4485-A7CE-13AD115A9C80" alt="sapphire1.jpg" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/22/self-organizing-nanotech-could-store-250-dvds-on-one-coin-size-surface/">Similar attempts have previously been made to improve data storage on semiconductor films, but have consistently failed because the polymers—which are known to link together, on their own, in precise patterns—lose their organized structure when the film being used increases in area, rendering them useless for storing memory</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/32ACD689-2DED-476C-86C0-D3984321A198/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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