However, the further application of these AuNP assemblies in a molecular electronics becomes infeasible since it require integration into electronic circuits.
The ability to direct the positioning of nanowires is likely to add steam to the already fast moving field of molecular electronics, says Bao. "It's the future direction the [molecular electronics] field will take".
Collections of pure semiconducting and metallic tubes should speed molecular electronics research by making it far easier for researchers to tailor-make molecular scale devices.
On the other hand, as Dr Williams points out, with terabits of storage available, it may never be necessary to erase anything.HP says that its molecular electronics will take a minimum of five years to commercialise.
One of the final goals of the research on molecular electronics is to control electron conduction in molecular wires and networks at will by combining appropriate molecular units.
Such monolayer control provides an important path for the creation of new hybrid materials for organic-inorganic electronic devices and molecular electronics.
There has recently been an increased interest in charge transport in DNA, due to both its relevance in physiological reactions and its potential use in molecular electronics [2 4].
Solid-state electronics depends on the control of the electron transfer in semiconductors and the new area of molecular electronics depends critically on the understanding and control of the transfer of electrons between molecules and nanostructures.
The chemionics is composed of molecular electronics, molecular ionics, and molecular photonics, where electrons, ions, and photons, respectively, play a central role.
Molecular electronics has been associated with high density nano-electronic devices.
