Shanghai scientists developed the world’s first “silk hard drive”: can be implanted in humans.
In the future, the hard drive used in our computers may not be a semiconductor, or a group of E. coli bacteria, but from a silkworm cocoon.
Chinese scientists have developed the world’s first natural bioprotein hard disk memory – silk hard disk: in addition to storing information, it can also contain things such as blood samples, DNA, vaccines, and even implanted in living organisms.
On August 10, Tao Hu陶虎, a researcher and doctoral supervisor at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystems and Information Technology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, and director of the 2020 Frontier Lab at the Shanghai Institute of Microsystems, told Pharma News (www.thepaper.cn) that the silk hard drive can store both digital and vital information; its biocompatibility is good, and it can be implanted into living organisms, such as the human body, preserved for long periods of time or even permanently, like the nameplates worn by soldiers in movies, made into life-giving nameplates that can never be lost; and made into life-controlled time capsules that can degrade and disappear in a controlled manner according to settings. It is expected to save information in extreme conditions such as outer space.
Taohu said that for the silk hard drive is not afraid of strong magnetic fields and strong radiation. In the microwave oven 30 minutes after the high fire, the silk hard disk information is still “safe and sound”. Silk hard disk storage capacity has reached 64GB per square inch, equivalent to 0.5TB.
