Boffins peg co-polymers for cheap chip construction

Scientists at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology have devised a potential chip-making technique that is the molecular equivalent of Doodles for Fun, a 1970s toy which kids used to make pictures by stretching coloured rubber bands on a pegged board. The MIT team's pegs are silicon posts etched onto a chip using a …

[Anonymous Coward]

I for one welcome our new...

Complex self-assembled pattern using sparse commensurate template with locally varying motif....overlords.

[Winston Smith]

mutually repelling, but attached to each other

So then, the real breakthrough is that they've invented marriage for molecules?

[ian 22]

"Lower wavelengths"

Interesting perspective, however I think you meant "shorter wavelengths".

Illuminating article!

[blackworx]

And Moore's Law

braces itself for another punt into the long grass

[I. Aproveofitspendingonspecificprojects 1]

Brilliant

It's like going back to the start.

You could draw a circuit on a piece of card with a graphite pencil. Connect the ends with battery and you have a circuit board.

Take a photo of a complex drawing and add a few gadgets and print in silver. A pcb fore runner.

Now the stuff is reverting to type with micro micro circuitry.

Next: Do it in diamonds. Well done whoever thought of that one.