Brownian technology path
Technology path µ is a randomly chosen term used on this site to describe an branch of advancement to an AP nanotechnology (beyond simple self assembly) that does exploit thermal movement like biological nanomachinery does instead of avoiding it and turning to machine phase like the mechanosynthetic branch to APM.
Path µ will develop parallel to the mechanosynthetic technology levels I to III and may interact with them in unexpected and yet unpredictable ways.
Like in the mechanosynthetic branch a switch from more scientific to more engineering treatment is probable to occur. keeping useful principles salvaged from biological systems and ditching evolutionary remnants that hinder orthogonal design .... [Todo: add link]
Beside polypeptides artificial materials that biological systems cant easily break down can and will be used like (foldamers, peptoids).
Richard Jones [1] is someone looking out in this direction.
[Todo: add description ... about speculative advanced bio-compatible area - also optics magnetics electronics and so forth]
Due to it's nature of µ-technology is always limited to a narrow temperature range (the solvent's liquid range or smaller).
The allowed temperature range of a whole system (on a thermally equilibrated micro-scale) is defined by the intersection of all the allowed temperature ranges of the system components.
When using technology of Path µ in e.g. technology level III either in the process of reaching it or when re-merging after reaching it the machine phase AP Technology will acquire an accordingly restricted range of allowed operation temperature range especially much of the allowed low temperature regime will be cut off.
It is advisable to keep track off all the allowed temperature ranges for system components (no matter which technology path) and keep the technology path branches (with vastly different allowed temperature ranges) as separate as possible.
This is an instance of the general concept of consistent design for external limiting factors.
