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Bacteriorhodopsin oriented in polyvinyl alcohol films as an erasable optical storage medium
Applied Optics
|August 19, 2010
Abstract:
Films of oriented bacteriorhodopsin have been formed in polyvinyl alcohol with excellent optical quality. Images with high contrast have been impressed and erased on these films. Second-harmonic microscopy has been used to read the image on a bacteriorhodopsin-polyvinyl alcohol film without erasure. The potential of these films for molecular information storage and computation is discussed.

