Liverpool Chemists Help Produce Faster Computers
Future electronics based on molecules will help create smaller and faster computers. This is the current research being conducted by chemists at the University of Liverpool, one of the UK s leading research institutes. For several years experts have been working to comprehend how to work with very small electronic equipment. In the up and coming field of Nano-science and nano-technologies it is essential for scientists to control the structure and bonding of molecules used in manufacturing small scale electronic components for products like computers. In Liverpool, scientists have created a pentacene, which is the union of a single gold atom and a single organic molecule. They succeeded in binding the atom to the pentacene and took images of rearrangements of the electrons contributing to the formation of the chemical bond. The scientists chose the pentacene because it is a special...