Self-Growing Material Opens Chip, Storage Advances

coondoggie brings us this NetworkWorld article, which begins: "In the ever-growing desire to produce smaller, less costly, yet more powerful and faster computers and storage devices, researchers today said they are looking at a way to use self-growing fabrics that will let manufacturers build nano-sized high resolution semiconductors and arrays to answer that craving. Researchers at the Nanoscale Science and Engineering Center (NSEC) at the University of Wisconsin — Madison have come up with a method that uses existing technology to combine the lithography techniques traditionally used to pattern microelectronics with novel self-assembling materials known as block copolymers, researchers said. When combined with a lithographically patterned surface, the block copolymers' long molecular chains spontaneously assemble into the designated arrangements."

Re:Grey goo

[Anonymous Coward]

Self-assemble, not self-growing, so it's not like grey goo at all. The headline is a lie, in soviet russia head lines you, imagine a beowolf cluster of welcoming nano-overlords, yada yada.