Scientists create molecular computer

HOUGHTON, Mich. (UPI) -- A team of U.S. and Japanese researchers says it has

created the first brain-like organic molecular layer that can solve complex

problems. The researchers from Michigan Technological University and Japan's National

Institute of Information and Communication Technology said their achievement

marks the first time an "evolutionary circuit" has been created.

The scientists said the world's fastest supercomputer can only process bits


one at a time in each of its channels. But they said the newly created


organic molecular layer allows instantaneous processing of approximately 300


bits.



They said the processor not only can produce solutions to problems for which

algorithms on computers are unknown, such as predictions of natural

calamities and outbreaks of disease, but the molecular processor is capable

of healing itself if there is a defect by using the self-organizing ability

of the molecular monolayer.



The work that included Associate Professor Ranjit Pati of Michigan

Technological University and Anirban Bandyopadhyay, the study's lead author,

at the National Institute for Materials Science in Japan, appears in the

journal Nature Physics.