Arizona State develops "roadmap" for molecular device design

From Eurekalert: "A team of scientists led by biophysicist Stuart Lindsay from the Biodesign Institute at Arizona State University have created the first reproducible single molecule negative differential resistor and in the process have developed a groundbreaking experimental technique that provides a 'roadmap' for designing single molecule devices based on biochemistry…the main value of the finding is not so [much] in having found a molecule that could be developed into a working electrical switch, as it is in discovering some critical design parameters that should make possible future successful research in designing molecular devices. 'We have a working rational roadmap now for how to do this and we're already hard at work applying it to a wide variety of potentially exciting applications,' [Lindsay] said." Credit KurzweilAI.net