Molecular electronics is a branch of nanotechnology that focuses on using individual molecules or nanoscale molecular structures as electronic components to create miniaturized circuits and devices.

Biological-based electronics. Developing circuits that are "grown" may seem farfetched, but research shows that a "biocomputer" might be possible in 25 years. From living plants, researchers have ...

Molecular electronics—the use of single molecules as the building blocks for electronic components—offers a potential pathway for the continued miniaturization of small-scale electronic devices.

Molecular electronics is an exciting field that explores the use of individual molecules or molecular assemblies in electronic devices. A key component of this research is the development of self ...

Using lasers and the bacteriorhodopsin protein molecule, the W. M. Keck Center for Molecular Electronics has built a molecular memory device holding several hundred megabytes. The advantage of ...

These switches are typically individual molecules or molecular assemblies that exhibit distinct properties in each state, allowing them to function as binary logic elements, similar to electronic ...

Justin Barbosa, GM and Vice President of TriLink Discovery, added “By integrating Molecular Assemblies technology into ...

More information: Hao Tang et al, Approaching coupled-cluster accuracy for molecular electronic structures with multi-task learning, Nature Computational Science (2024). DOI: 10.1038/s43588-024 ...

The field of molecular electronics has developed significantly as experimental techniques to study charge transport through single molecules have become more reliable. Three Articles in this issue ...