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.