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Just as someone who works down the hall from a lot of people doing molecular electronics, let me suggest that any claim of a single molecule device needs to be taken with a grain of salt - this has been claimed before and turned out as artifact. It's really hard to make a good electrical connection between the macroscopic world and just one electron. Because of this, people doing conductivity measurments on DNA have variously claimed that it's an insulator, a conductor, and a superconductor. Excluding their measurement apparatus, someone's wrong. Likewise, let's see a few more groups reach the same result, and then pop the champaign.

Anyway, love your links.

Posted by Mike Beversluis at June 4, 2005 12:41 PM