Scientists are exploring the possibility of creating liquid media

In the modern world, information carriers are getting smaller every year. A couple of decades ago, it was hard for a person to imagine that one day on a tiny flash drive you could write hundreds of gigabytes of data. But progress does not stand still, and scientists are exploring the possibility of creating entirely new media.

Researchers from the University of Michigan, together with colleagues from the University of New York demonstrated results of their research. In the framework of this scientific project, scientists used a solution with floating plastic nanoparticles, which are capable of forming one-bit clusters. In fact, this solution mimics biological processes that can easily be found in nature, for example, DNA in living cells is very similar to what scientists are trying to create.

In this video, scientists demonstrated how nanoparticles behave within the framework of these one-bit clusters:

"A four-particle memory cluster connected to a central sphere can take two positions, like a regular information bit. A cluster of 12 particles can already take 8 million unique positions. During the research, we found out that a tablespoon containing a solution with clusters of 12 particles, is capable of storing a terabyte of data. Agree, this is much smaller than a portable hard drive. "

Scientists at the moment are trying to solve the issue with the materials that will be used in the media of the new generation. As there arises an acute question of the high cost of future technology. The second most important question is to teach such carriers to read and write information into particle clusters.

Researchers note that this is only the first and very important step in this direction, and they will publish the results of their further research on a regular basis. While the technology decided to call "wet computing" (from "wet" - moisture, English).

Who knows, maybe in five years we will be able to buy in any computer store a couple of liters of new media, fill it in a special tank of your personal computer and thereby expand the amount of its memory.

The article is based on materials https://hi-news.ru/technology/uchyonye-issleduyut-vozmozhnost-sozdaniya-zhidkix-nositelej-informacii.html.