Proteins Help Researchers Build a Flash Memory Device 21
ckwu writes "Researchers in Japan and Taiwan have demonstrated the first working flash memory device made using proteins as scaffolding to build a 3-D nanoparticle structure. Compared to current fabrication techniques, using proteins to arrange nanoparticles could enable the design of smaller memory devices and more complex, multilayer electronics. According to the researchers, their mulitlayer flash memory had twice the capacity of a conventionally made single-layer device."
Re:Great for the paranoid. (Score:4, Funny)
Actually, it's kinda interesting tech. They took a fairly easy to understand molecule, Ferritin, which binds iron in the blood, made some little critters with modified ferritin so it bound silicon instead and used them as a lattice to set up a flash memory cell.
Can't make tofu out of it, but perhaps a cell phone. I can't wait for marketing to get a hold of the tech - "organic protein cell phone" or some such. Maybe Apple can invent it.