Foldamer robot approach (incremental path)
From apm
This is about a possible sub-branch of the incremental path.
The idea here is to scale up self-assembly capabilities of various foldamer technologies quite far (yellow or orange "too big to diffuse?" star in the diagram). And only then take a turn left in the diagram to more advanced materials.
How would that look like in reality?
There would be quite advanced bottom up-self assembled foldamer based systems on chip.
Perhaps so far so that
- bottom up positional assembly has already reached and
- top down positional assembly became possible.
Basically low performance de-novo protein and other foldamer based productive nanosystems.
Related
- Turn left earlier: Printer approach
- Turn left earliest: Catalysis construction kit approach