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The 11/27/00 issue of Fortune highlights Molecular Electronics Corps.,

co-founded last December by Prof. Mark Reed, EE, and scientists from

Rice University and Penn State. "In two years, Reed promises, the

teams will demonstrate the first working prototype of a molecular

transistor… (These transistors) will be thousands of times smaller

and 100 times faster than their silicon predecessors." Last year,

Prof. Reed and his colleagues were the first to switch specially

designed molecules on and off with a trickle of electric current.