| Computers and supramolecular chemistry are becoming increasingly symbiotic. Many research groups around the world are concentrating their efforts on developing systems which behave in manners analogous to components of computers, from the simplest logic systems, up to recent reports of molecular-based electronic circuits capable of storing 36 bits of digital information. Conversely, if the future of computing has an element of supramolecular chemistry to it, then the future of supramolecular chemistry is certainly intertwined with computational power. As (silicon-based) computers continue to increase in computational speed, so more accurate calculations become possible on ever larger chemical systems. |
