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Unique molecule may lead to smaller, more efficient computers

From left: Shen, Wang and Shiri with their molecule and a chemical model of it. Photos by Joshua Prezant/University of Miami.A team of physicists from the University of Miami, with two collaborators, developed a new type of molecule that could offer a groundbreaking material for computer chips.

Today, most of us carry a fairly powerful computer in our hand—a smartphone.

But computers weren’t always so portable. Since the 1980s, they have become smaller, lighter, and better equipped to store and process vast troves of data.

Yet the silicon chips that power computers can only get so small.

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