Molecular Self Assembly - Nanotech engineering - applying biological self assembly to the non-biological world.

As background for molecular self assembly - here's a 2 hour lecture on the world of nanoscience by Nobel Physics Laureate Dr. Horst Stormer.
 

If you go outside and visit a park or a farm and look around you - everything you see (trees, grass, birds, etc.) is a self assembly machine.  Contrast this from going inside your home and look around - and almost everything you see (your television, chairs, clothing, etc.) isn't alive like the natural world - nothing self assembles - everything must be built.

The molecular machines in our cells are atomically precise - built atom by atom based on the duplication process of our DNA.  The study of this biotechnology provides the knowledge to transfer the process of self assembly from the living world to the non-living world.

Have a look at this desktop nanofactory...



Theoretically, a nanomachine is a lot faster and simpler in some ways than the machinery of a living cell.  On the other hand, it has a big disadvantage - it can't evolve.  Once a product is made - new "feedstock toner" must be input again so that the desktop nanofactory can arrange the atoms to make another product.

Molecular Self Assembly brings up all sorts of economic, political, social, and religious implications.  The concepts of Nanotech engineering are mind-bending, and the time to start understanding the pros and cons of applying molecular self assembly to the non-living world is now.

Welcome to www.MolecularSelfAssembly.com .  This special website is meant to be a community site where interested world citizens can become educated about the possibility of non-living molecular self assembly.

Molecular Self Assembly has both pros and cons - the ability to make anything from the atomic level could revolutionize health, production, and environmental remediation - yet on the downside create nanoweapons with great destruction potential.  Our best deterrent against the misuse of nanotechnolgy is an enlightened population.  Thanks for stopping by this important website.