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Coating single tobacco mosaic viruses with platinum nanoparticles turns them into memory elements similar to the individual bits in flash memory chips. The metalized viruses could be a route to inexpensive, high-capacity nanoelectronic memory devices.
(Digital Memory Device Based on Tobacco Mosaic Virus Conjugated with Nanoparticles, Nature Nanotechnology, October 2006)
Full article here: http://www.nature.com/nnano/journal/v1/n1/...no.2006.55.html











