Press releases – an important communication tool

As a National Center of Competence in Research we have to fulfill a role as interface between science and the society. Therefore, we should continuously communicate our scientific findings to the public. Important tools to achieve this are press releases. Among others we have issued a press release on a scientific publication:

New principle for data storage and molecular switches
Scientists within the NCCR Nanoscale Science have explored a new process to produce complex two-dimensional structures from single molecules. Those could be the basis for data storage elements with incomparable storage density and for molecular switches. A paper on this research was recently published in the science journal “Angewandte Chemie”. The researchers show in their work how molecules self-organize at room temperature to chains and pairs on a surface. The molecules organize so complex and precise to physically and chemically identical building blocks made of several hundred atoms as not yet possible with technological production processes.
Full press release (in German)


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