Communications Chemistry (Dec 2020)

Reading mixtures of uniform sequence-defined macromolecules to increase data storage capacity

  • Maximiliane Frölich,
  • Dennis Hofheinz,
  • Michael A. R. Meier

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s42004-020-00431-9
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 10

Abstract

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Sequence-defined molecules are promising for data storage applications, but synthesizing long sequences is typically required to achieve a high data storage capacity. Here the authors synthesize a library of different sequence-defined tetramers and hexamers and demonstrate that mixtures of these short sequence-defined oligomers can store up to 64.5 bit.