{"id":221489,"date":"2025-09-06T03:28:12","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-non-volatile-memory-platform-built-with-covalent-organic-frameworks"},"modified":"2025-09-06T03:28:12","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T08:28:12","slug":"new-non-volatile-memory-platform-built-with-covalent-organic-frameworks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/09\/new-non-volatile-memory-platform-built-with-covalent-organic-frameworks","title":{"rendered":"New non-volatile memory platform built with covalent organic frameworks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/new-non-volatile-memory-platform-built-with-covalent-organic-frameworks2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have created a new material platform for non-volatile memories using covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are crystalline solids with high thermal stability. The researchers successfully installed electric-field-responsive dipolar rotors into COFs.<\/p>\n<p>Due to the unique structure of the COFs, the dipolar rotors can flip in response to an <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/electric+field\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">electric field<\/a> without being hampered by a steric hindrance from the surroundings, and their orientation can be held at ambient temperature for a long time, which are necessary conditions for non-volatile memories. The study is <a href=\"https:\/\/pubs.acs.org\/doi\/10.1021\/jacs.5c10010\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in the Journal of the American Chemical Society.<\/p>\n<p>Humans have made great efforts to record information by inventing recording media such as clay, paper, compact disks, and semiconductor memories. As the physical entity that holds information\u2014such as indentations, characters, pits, or transistors\u2014becomes smaller and its <a href=\"https:\/\/techxplore.com\/tags\/areal+density\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">areal density<\/a> becomes higher, the information is stored with higher density. In rewritable memories, the class called \u201cnon-volatile memories\u201d are suitable for storing data for a long time, such as for days and years.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Researchers at Institute of Science Tokyo have created a new material platform for non-volatile memories using covalent organic frameworks (COFs), which are crystalline solids with high thermal stability. The researchers successfully installed electric-field-responsive dipolar rotors into COFs. Due to the unique structure of the COFs, the dipolar rotors can flip in response to an electric [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,1523],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-221489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chemistry","category-computing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221489","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\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221489\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}