From Nanotechnology to Nanoarchitectonics

From Nanotechnology to Nanoengineering

In those early days, nanotechnology referred to the possibility of synthesis via direct manipulation of atoms and molecules for fabrication of macroscale products. In the 1990, K. Eric Drexler and M. Minsky used the word “nanotechnology” in their book “Engines of Creation: The Coming Era of Nanotechnology” (Drexler and Minsky 1990), in which they proposed assembling machines and devices on the ...

Focus on Materials Nanoarchitectonics.

From Nanotechnology to Nano-Planning

This paper describes the novel area of nano-planning|the study of automated planning in a eutactic environment. We begin by describing the evolution of present technology towards nanotechnology and the rationale for engineering nano-robots. The various established elds of research that will contribute to the creation of the rst nano-robot are reviewed. The discussion then focuses on the role of...

Structural DNA Nanotechnology: From Design to Applications

The exploitation of DNA for the production of nanoscale architectures presents a young yet paradigm breaking approach, which addresses many of the barriers to the self-assembly of small molecules into highly-ordered nanostructures via construct addressability. There are two major methods to construct DNA nanostructures, and in the current review we will discuss the principles and some examples ...

From DNA nanotechnology to synthetic biology.

Attempts to construct artificial systems from biological molecules such as DNA and RNA by self-assembly are compatible with the recent development of synthetic biology. Genetic mechanisms can be used to produce or control artificial structures made from DNA and RNA, and these structures can in turn be used as artificial gene regulatory elements, in vitro as well as in vivo. Artificial biochemic...