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Title: Denser Data Storage - Erica Naone, Tehnology Review Post by: Stephen Taylor on July 17, 2007, 05:02:07 AM Denser Data Storage - Erica Naone, Tehnology Review High density: Researchers at Brown University have found a way to control the synthesis of iron-platinum nanorods (above) and nanowires--a process that could be used to make higher-density magnetic media. Scientists have produced a novel type of nanoparticle that they say could make it possible to dramatically increase magnetic-based data storage on future generations of computer hard drives. The researchers at Brown University and Sandia National Laboratories have announced new ways to create iron-platinum nanorods and nanowires. The materials can potentially provide a way to make far denser magnetic media. In doing so, the new materials could make possible devices that do not have the limits that many scientist anticipate conventional magnetic storage technologies will soon encounter. Read More.. (http://www.technologyreview.com/Nanotech/19015/) |