Advanced Materials, Vol.22, No.14, 1622-1622, 2010
Molecular Scale Control of Unbound and Bound C-60 for Topochemical Ultradense Data Storage in an Ultrathin C-60 Film
Molecular-scale control of unbound and bound states of C-60 molecules is achieved at room temperature. Using this method, single-molecule-level writing, erasing, and rewriting bits are demonstrated: A single surface C-60 molecule represents "1" or "0" of binary data depending on whether the C-60 molecule is depressed due to dimerization or trimerization with an underlying C-60 molecule or not.