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Breakthrough CISS Effect Could Transform Data Storage

2/1/2025

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Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have unveiled the groundbreaking chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, enabling chiral molecules to manipulate electron spin. This innovative approach promises to revolutionize data storage by transforming spin currents into charge currents, tailored by molecular chirality. Their exciting findings were featured in Science Advances.

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Researchers at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz have unveiled the groundbreaking chiral-induced spin selectivity (CISS) effect, enabling chiral molecules to manipulate electron spin. This innovative approach promises to revolutionize data storage by transforming spin currents into charge currents, tailored by molecular chirality. Their exciting findings were featured in Science Advances.