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Atom wranglers create rewritable memory

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Chlorine atoms arranged into grids bring researchers closer to data-storage devices that could hold the US Library of Congress.

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  1. Kalff, F. E. et al. Nature Nanotechnol. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2016.131 (2016).

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