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Technology Research News March 24, 2004 Eric Smalley	Molecular logic proposed Researchers from the French National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS) and University College London in England have devised a scheme for designing logic circuits within individual molecules.
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Chemistry World January 5, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Password Protection Goes Molecular Israeli scientists have invented the ultimate in small-scale security: a molecule that acts like an electronic keypad lock.
Chemistry World February 8, 2006 Jon Evans	To Boldly go Where no Chemist Has Gone Before Studying the interactions between different molecular fragments is taking researchers to the uncharted regions of chemical space.
Chemistry World January 16, 2012 Kate McAlpine	Stripped down spectroscopy to probe single molecules Spectroscopy, a key method of identifying atoms and molecules with light, has been taken to its most fundamental level - a single photon absorbed by a single molecule.
Technology Research News November 5, 2003	Paired molecules store data Researchers from the University of California at Irvine have bonded a pair of molecules to form a molecule that has two states. The components are photochromic fulgimide and a dye molecule capable of florescence.
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Chemistry World December 13, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Scientists unveil tiniest switch Researchers in Germany claim to have created the world's smallest molecular switch, relying on the movement of just a single proton.
Chemistry World August 22, 2011 Jon Cartwright	Manmade molecular machine goes to work Manmade molecules can generate similar forces to natural molecular machines, and could help chemists to design artificial molecular machines for meaningful tasks.
Chemistry World August 23, 2012 Yuandi Li	Reversible photoswitch a boost for molecular electronics A team of international scientists has made a photocontrollable device, which, they say, shows potential for application in nanocircuits and helps the understanding of electrical conduction in molecular electronics.
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Technology Research News August 13, 2003	Molecule makes ring rotor Researchers from the University of Edinburgh in Scotland have interlocked large, ring-shaped molecules to make a molecular rotor that moves in only one direction. The molecule could eventually be used as a nanoscale motor or winch.
Chemistry World August 21, 2008 Fred Campbell	Double bonding with silicon In a landmark for silicon chemistry, US researchers have reported the first stable silicon (0) compound to contain a silicon-silicon double bond.
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Technology Research News August 27, 2003	Light makes molecule shine Researchers from Kyushu University in Japan have constructed a fluorescent molecule that can be repeatedly switched on and off. If a way can be found to switch individual, closely-packed molecules on and off, fantastic amounts of information could be stored in very small spaces.
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Chemistry World August 8, 2006	Single Molecule Makes Electronic Switch A single molecule, trapped between two electrodes, acts as a switch and has a `memory' of the type used in data storage, researchers have found.
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Chemistry World July 31, 2008	Nanostructures Made Easy Scotland-based chemists have invented a new way to build nanoscale arrays of molecules over a large surface area: a technique that may be key to making nanostructures in sophisticated sensors, catalysts, and tiny computer parts.
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Chemistry World August 27, 2009 Nina Notman	Molecules in close-up A tuning-fork-like device than measures atomic forces is able to image every single atom in a molecule, according to its Swiss inventors.
Chemistry World November 11, 2012 Simon Hadlington	'Nano-welding' taken to the limits as specific bonds are cut and formed In a remarkable demonstration of the extreme limits of nanoscale engineering, researchers from the US and China have used the tip of a scanning tunnelling microscope to cleave and form selected chemical bonds on a complex molecule.
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Chemistry World July 23, 2012 Melissae Fellet	RNA wrapper protects small molecules Step aside benzene rings, there's a new protecting group in town. Dutch researchers have used a strand of RNA to cover portions of a complex small molecule. They then chemically modified a portion of the molecule not covered by the RNA.
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Chemistry World June 5, 2013 Simon Hadlington	Raman scattering reaches sub-nm resolution Researchers have achieved the highest resolution yet with Raman spectroscopy, allowing the chemical mapping of molecules to a resolution of less than 1nm. The technique could allow unprecedented chemical identification of single molecules.
Chemistry World March 21, 2007 Richard Van Noorden	Forcing a Reaction US chemists have forced molecules to react by ripping their bonds apart with ultrasound. The scientists carefully stretched one targeted bond until it snapped, guiding the molecule's subsequent reaction into pathways forbidden by conventional chemistry.
Chemistry World October 12, 2006 Richard Van Noorden	Lasers on the Energy Ski Slope Researchers have shown that intense laser-light pulses can act as catalysts, controlling the end products of a chemical reaction without themselves being absorbed.
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