Bootstrapping methods for productive nanosystems

Available methods for getting towards the necessary parallelity to produce macroscopic amounts of products

• bottom up: fully parallel (and hierarchical) self assembly of atomically precise chemically pre-produced building blocks
• top down: conventional photolithographic methods (MEMs)
• exponential assembly (the glue in the middle?)
• compact self replication (outdated)

Related

• Pathways to advanced APM systems
• Incremental path
• Direct path
• Bridging the gaps

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• Dynamic rebootstrapping of upper convergent assembly levels