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This startup wants to make electronics out of single molecules

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Twenty years after the field underwent a dramatic hype cycle, Roswell Biotechnologies is using single molecules to make better biosensor chips.

This startup wants to make electronics out of single molecules | MIT Technology Review Skip to Content In 1999, Rice University chemist Jim Tour co-founded Molecular Electronics Corporation, a company that aimed to use single molecules to make a new type of electronic memory. But Tour had even bigger dreams. In a 2000 story in Wired , he foretold a future in which molecular electronics would leapfrog silicon-based circuitry, allowing computer chips to keep getting denser and more powerful. This vision was short-lived: five years later, flash had cornered the memory market, silicon continued to

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