Progress is moving forward rapidly in many fields that may contribute to molecular manufacturing. What we're witnessing is the surprisingly fast filling of the nanoscale toolbox.
Here's a report from CNSI, a joint enterprise between UCLA and UC Santa Barbara, about molecular electronics. It's not only that the work they are doing is quite impressive, but also what they see in the future.
"Dreams I was having less than a decade ago are becoming a reality in our labs," said UCLA's Fraser Stoddart, whose areas of expertise include nanoelectronics, mechanically interlocked molecules, molecular machines, molecular nanotechnology, molecular self-assembly processes and molecular recognition, among many other fields of chemistry. . .CNSI [researchers are] exploring the power and potential of organizing and manipulating matter atom-by-atom, molecule-by-molecule, to engineer "new devices and systems that will extend the scope of many existing technologies and foster commercial development far beyond anything we might have contemplated up until now," Stoddart said.
Wow, don't blink!
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