Chemical code used to store Jane Austen quote in plastic molecules newscientist.com - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from newscientist.com Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.
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IMAGE: This image shows a quote from Jane Austen s Mansfield Park written in oligourethanes. view more
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Using a novel molecular-data-storage technique, researchers at the University of Texas at Austin have encoded a quote from Jane Austen s classic novel Mansfield Park in a series of oligomers, which a third party could read back without prior knowledge of the structures that encoded the passage. The findings, published April 21st in the journal
Cell Reports Physical Science, illustrate a method to encode data that allows for greater information density than DNA-based approaches and that relies on urethane-like plastics highly accessible and structurally modifiable chemical feedstocks instead of nucleic acids.
Chemists Translate Jane Austen s Words into Molecules That Make Plastics insidescience.org - get the latest breaking news, showbiz & celebrity photos, sport news & rumours, viral videos and top stories from insidescience.org Daily Mail and Mail on Sunday newspapers.