CBM, a consultancy, the main potential for online bond-trading is in fixed-income securities that are already fairly liquid: these (notably government bonds and blue-chip corporate bonds) are likely to become more liquid, and more keenly priced.

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Their working model is a shoebox-sized package of electronics and liquid-filled tubes, with a silicon chip at its core.

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If the electrodes can be connected successfully to the rest of a chip, the result would be a new type of liquid-fuelled computer.

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Here's the catch: To ramp the chip up to that wild speed, testers had to pour liquid Nitrogen and liquid Helium on top of it, in a sort of mad-scientist experiment.

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Small organic molecules won't dissolve in a liquid and so must be deposited onto a screen using a process similar to etching a standard computer chip.

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