Inside Cover: Sequential Logic Operations with Surface-Confined Polypyridyl Complexes Displaying Molecular Random Access Memory Features (Angew. Chem. Int. Ed. 1/2010)

✍ Scribed by Graham de Ruiter; Elizabetha Tartakovsky; Noa Oded; Milko E. van der Boom

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 510 KB
• Volume: 49
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0044-8249
• DOI: 10.1002/anie.200906382

✦ Synopsis

Redox-active monolayers …

… form the basis of a solid-state setup that is able to mimic the input/output characteristics of electronic circuits. In their Communication on page 169 ff., M. E. van der Boom and co-workers demonstrate sequential logic operations controlled by multiple chemical inputs, with one circuit equivalent to a set-reset latch-one of the fundamental parts in random access memory. The kind of logic (combinatorial or sequential) can be controlled by keeping the current state static or dynamic.