18th Century Pigment to Revolutionize Chip Design?

Scarlet X writes "Researchers at the University of Washington have discovered a possible nonvolatile magnetic semiconductor and are investigating its use for 'spintronics,' an emerging technology that is concerned with manipulating and controlling the charge, flow and magnetism of electrons. The possibilities for the material 'cobalt green,' a paint developed by American Revolution era artists, as a spintronics material is exciting. Should the magnetic properties of the paint at room-temperature prove able to reliably control the wild spinning of excited electrons in a processor, not only could the size of processors reduce substantially, but the constant limiting factor, how to keep things cool, could disappear."

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Re:American Era artists?

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>the guys who revolted against the British were terrorists
And keep that in mind when dealing with current day terrorists of various factions. As a rule, they are people with a grudge who have run out of options. Because they want something different to us, we demonize them to allow us to continue our mantra of 'we are right'.
That said, whilst I understand their reasons and motivations, anyone that hurts innocent civilians because of a grudge with a nation or govt requires locking up (After due process etc).
FX: Sits back awaiting a tirade of 'you love terrorists therefor you hate America, democracy, apple pie etc although I'm hoping the /. IQ is above that.