A leap towards molecular data storage

Research led by Dr David Mills and Dr Nicholas Chilton at The University of Manchester has led to the discovery of a single-molecule magnet which has its memory effect, known as magnetic hysteresis, at temperatures of up to 60 K (-213 °C). This work, recently published in Nature, takes a leap towards being able to store data at the molecular level.

To read the original paper, search doi:10.1038/nature23447

To look at the Chemistry World news feature, go to https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/dysprosium-molecular-magnet-sets-new-temperature-record/3007890.article

To see The University of Manchester’s press release, look at http://www.manchester.ac.uk/discover/news/major-leap-towards-storing-data-at-the-molecular-level/

 

 

A volunteer’s contribution

Thanks Dave for moving our website on to a new page. We had been stagnating for some time so a fresh start is very welcome.

I hope that other members will chip in and get posting so that this might become the must see site on every OU chemist’s connectivity spectrum.

Soon, I will be passing on as an OU undergraduate. I am in the final edits of my project report and it is the last module in my B Sc (Hons) Natural Sciences degree. After I have died as an undergraduate I hope to be reborn as a postgraduate. However, life after death is not guaranteed, so I may end up in a state of academic limbo. Will that be paradise lost or gained?

Welcome to the new OU Alchemy Website

Hello everyone,

Over the next few weeks you will gradually see all the content being transferred across from the old website to the new website.

You may also be asking why have we moved to a different platform; Joomla, as good as it is, is not as popular as WordPress and it is because of this reason that more people write and create themes and plugins for WordPress.

Membership was also a problem. There was no way for us to control who paid what and when and so your subscriptions continued indefinitely. Through a FREE plugin we are now able to manage the subscriptions more easily and automatically.

For the volunteers behind the scene, it is far more easier to add content and post using WordPress; this should hopefully enable the website to become a popular source for your chemistry needs.

We hope you like the look of the new site, if you do not please drop us a comment via the Contact Us page.