{"id":168405,"date":"2023-07-26T22:22:41","date_gmt":"2023-07-27T03:22:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-nano-switchable-polar-column-system-that-allows-high-density-data-storage"},"modified":"2023-07-26T22:22:41","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T03:22:41","slug":"a-nano-switchable-polar-column-system-that-allows-high-density-data-storage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/07\/a-nano-switchable-polar-column-system-that-allows-high-density-data-storage","title":{"rendered":"A nano switchable polar column system that allows high-density data storage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-nano-switchable-polar-column-system-that-allows-high-density-data-storage3.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In today\u2019s world of digital information, an enormous amount of data is exchanged and stored on a daily basis.<\/p>\n<p>In the 1980s, IBM unveiled the first hard drive\u2014which was the size of a refrigerator\u2014that could store 1 GB of data, but now we have memory devices that have a thousand-fold greater data-storage capacity and can easily fit in the palm of our hand. If the current pace of increase in <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/digital+information\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">digital information<\/a> is any indication, we require yet newer data recording systems that are lighter, have low environmental impact, and, most importantly, have higher data storage density.<\/p>\n<p>Recently, a new class of materials called axially polar-ferroelectric columnar liquid crystals (AP-FCLCs) has emerged as a candidate for future high-density memory storage materials. An AP-FCLC is a liquid crystal with a structure of parallel columns generated by <a href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/tags\/molecular+self-assembly\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">molecular self-assembly<\/a>, which have polarization along the column axis.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In today\u2019s world of digital information, an enormous amount of data is exchanged and stored on a daily basis. In the 1980s, IBM unveiled the first hard drive\u2014which was the size of a refrigerator\u2014that could store 1 GB of data, but now we have memory devices that have a thousand-fold greater data-storage capacity and can [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1523,1635],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computing","category-materials"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=168405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}