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Magnetic 'Superatoms' Promise Tuneable Materials

Posted June 26, 2009 8:52 AM

From New Scientist - Online News:

New "superatoms" - clusters of atoms that share electrons and can mimic the behaviour of other elements - have been devised with magnetic properties for the first time. The breakthrough provides a way to design novel nano-scale building blocks with controllable magnetic properties that could be used to make faster computer processors and denser memory storage.

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