Self-Growing Material Opens Chip, Storage Advances

coondoggie brings us this NetworkWorld article, which begins: "In the ever-growing desire to produce smaller, less costly, yet more powerful and faster computers and storage devices, researchers today said they are looking at a way to use self-growing fabrics that will let manufacturers build nano-sized high resolution semiconductors and arrays to answer that craving. Researchers at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) at the University of Wisconsin — Madison have come up with a method that uses existing technology to combine the lithography techniques traditionally used to pattern microelectronics with novel self-assembling materials known as block copolymers, researchers said. When combined with a lithographically patterned surface, the block copolymers' long molecular chains spontaneously assemble into the designated arrangements."

Comments

cool new solid state storage

[FudRucker]

buy a new 80 gig solid state hardddrive or storage device and the longer you own it the bigger it grows in a year it has doubled capacity :)

wishful thinking...

Re:cool new solid state storage

[Anonymous Coward]

It only increases in size if you store porn on it.

Even then, after a while, porn or not, it goes back to its original size.

Re:Mixed Metaphors

[Yvan256]

It's got electrolytes!