Nanomaterial May Be Future of Hard Drives

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"Most magnets shrug off tiny temperature tweaks. But now physicists have created a new nanomaterial--an ultrathin 10-nanometer layer of nickel grafted onto a 100-nanometer-thick wafer of a substance called vanadium oxide--that dramatically changes how easily it flips its magnetic orientation when heated or cooled only slightly (http://news.sciencemag.org/physics/2014/03/nanomaterial-may-be-future-hard-drives). The effect, never before seen in any material, could eventually lead to new types of computer memory

http://tech.slashdot.org/story/14/03/10/1619215/nanomaterial-may-be-future-of-hard-drives