Foldamer robot approach (incremental path)

Possible map for the incremental path. The robo approach corresponds to path B in the diagram.

This is about a possible sub-branch of the incremental path.
This is is part of the more broad ideas of protein carpentry.

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.

Path marked with B in the diagram.

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 been reached and
• top down positional assembly became possible.

The robo approach in the incremental path basically entails
compared to diamoindoid low performance de-novo protein and other foldamer based productive nanosystems
at larger but not necessarily macro-scales.

Applications

Potential side applications at this potential early stage of tech development.
It seems not much comes up here.

This could e.g. make quite big structures usable for:

• bigger gratings for neutral atom helium matter wave microscopes
• much bigger optical gratings like on butterfly wings (structural color)
• maybe nanofluidics with chambers integrating enzymatic proteins or such?
• ...

Related

• Protein carpentry

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• Turn left here: Robo approach
• Turn left earlier: Printer approach
• Turn left earliest: Catalysis construction kit approach

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• Modular molecular composite nanosystems

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• Incremental path
• Positional assembly
• Pathways
• Positional assembly redundancy blockade

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• Digital control over matter

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• For something similar but in the context of the direct path see:
  RepRec pick-and-place robots (GemGum)