1. As an applied science, molecular electronics would begin at a minute scale far beyond the theoretical boundaries of the conventional technology of silicon transistors. 2. By merging the aerodynamics of insects with GPS navigation and molecular electronics, they hope to initially create an arsenal of tiny reconnaissance tools. 3. Computer researchers said they believe the advance heralds the rapid acceleration of a new field known as moletronics, or molecular electronics. 4. Harvard University chemist Charles Lieber believes it will take a more regimented architecture to make molecular electronics perform. 5. Now other groups are preparing to announce that they have succeeded in creating other basic computing components at this ultramicroscopic scale, known as molecular electronics. 6. Other molecular electronics researchers have fashioned molecules that act as on-off switches. 7. Speculating about whether a new technology like molecular electronics might displace an existing one like silicon is very risky, the researchers said. 8. Some molecular electronics researchers envision an entirely new industry, perhaps within the next decade. 9. The recent molecular electronics work has been blemished, at least, by sloppiness. 10. The research on conducting polymers also has applications in the emerging field of molecular electronics, where transistors and other components will be fashioned out of individual molecules. |