Chinese researchers are working to develop molecular hard drives with high capacity The drives use organometallic molecules to boost data density and efficiency A conductive atomic force microscope tip reads and writes molecular data Chinese researchers are exploring the potential of organic materials to develop a new type of hard drive that could potentially store six times the amount of data compared to current mechanical models. Traditional hard drives store data in binary form, relying on magnetized regions to represent ones and zeros, which limits storage capacity. Molecular hard drives overcome this by using self-assembled monolayers of organometallic complex molecules,…