Assorted Martins and Cees (Nederlander Day, it seems) have devised a way to use the integration of “biomolecular motors in nanoengineered structures” (that is, “molecule-sized motors in very small machinery”) to sort and guide individual microtubule filaments.
This is seriously compact powering and control. I idly wonder whether this could ever be carefully stretched to become a truly solid-state hard-drive replacement. Kind of like a mostly-serial, ultra-fast bunch of core memory: low-power, static, difficult to jolt, no noises or obvious moving parts. Wait and see again, I guess.
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