Data storage is of prime importance to the current generation of techno savvy gadget users. Ever so often the latest development makes us realize that the current capacity of our phone or computer to store data is now no longer enough. That now we need to update the hardware to be able to store and process even more date much faster than before.

Researchers at Kiel University have come up with a way to store data on a spin-crossover molecule that they have developed. The molecule stores information via its magnetic state. The storage density of the hard drives that we use today could, theoretically, go up by more than one hundred times using this new technique.

Quantum mechanics limits the miniaturization of current electronic storage devices. Simply placing such small molecules correctly on a surface to add data to them was an issue that was unsolved, earlier. By building this new type of  spin-crossover molecule, the researchers have made it easier to place them on surfaces so that data may be transferred. Needless to say, this is one science project that will allow you to enhance the data storage of your electronic gadget by many hundreds of units once a working prototype can be developed.