A team of scientists led by Ian Manners, a professor at the school of chemistry at the University of Bristol, recently developed a clever way to develop "high - magnetic materials" that fundamentally improve the performance of today's computers.

The incorporation of metal atoms in polymers or plastic structures has become the focus of much research in recent decades, and has been applied to self-healing materials, photovoltaic technology and information storage.

Metal sandwich composites are generally referred to as "metallocene", which are embedded in polymer materials and are most commonly used with iron.

Now researchers at the University of Bristol and the University of Oxford have created a polymer that allows nickel (in the form of two nickel units) embedded in its structure to form bright green, high magnetic materials.

"It's remarkable that we can" create and destroy magnetic polymers using "temperature only" (a depolymerization process), said Rebecca Musgrave, the study's lead author." Most of the materials with cooperative magnetism are non soluble or difficult to handle, and this nickel based polymer is a rare, approachable, easily controlled, soluble polymer."

Scientists will further explore the electronic and magnetic properties of this polymer and work on the use of such high magnetic materials for storage applications to improve the performance of current computer technology.