Silicon oxide has been used as an insulation material of choice, but scientists at RICE University found that the materials of the new applications: as a solid state storage.

RICE university graduate student Jun Yao tried to10nano graphite replaced by silica can be normal use, and the use of 5nano silicon nanowires experiment, found that this material is fairly consistent with a computer 0and1storage concepts (i.e., can be easily combined with crushing, conductive and power ). Most of the current storage still at 20 nm8 nm, while NAND Flash has been put into production, but the silicon material will break the existing on the storage device technology.