Comments on: Bottom-up nanotechnology to be speeded by nanoliter-on-a-chip reactors http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307 examining transformative technology Wed, 03 Apr 2013 18:23:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.4 By: Christine Peterson http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307#comment-31572 Christine Peterson Sat, 26 Aug 2006 00:04:29 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307#comment-31572 Bottom-up nanotech in the early stages involves a lot of normal chemistry. These new techniques should speed up those stages. Mechanochemistry may not be part of the early stages. —Christine Bottom-up nanotech in the early stages involves a lot of normal chemistry. These new techniques should speed up those stages. Mechanochemistry may not be part of the early stages. —Christine

]]> By: Adam http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307#comment-31335 Adam Thu, 24 Aug 2006 21:41:59 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307#comment-31335 What implications do these reactors have for field research? Whenever I read about "lab-on-a-chip," I always imagine some kind of handheld device checking the atmosphere or ocean water, or even a fishtank, for contaminates. Maybe I'm too much of a dreamer, but then again, we are talking about bottom-up manufacturing. To address Jonathan's point. I think where Christine was going with this is that these micro-processing are giving chemists much more control and efficiency than in the past. Ultimately, that control could lead to putting the right atoms together in the right order (like 1's and 0's) with some degree of precision, which is a step towards bottom up assembly. What implications do these reactors have for field research? Whenever I read about “lab-on-a-chip,” I always imagine some kind of handheld device checking the atmosphere or ocean water, or even a fishtank, for contaminates. Maybe I’m too much of a dreamer, but then again, we are talking about bottom-up manufacturing.

To address Jonathan’s point. I think where Christine was going with this is that these micro-processing are giving chemists much more control and efficiency than in the past. Ultimately, that control could lead to putting the right atoms together in the right order (like 1′s and 0′s) with some degree of precision, which is a step towards bottom up assembly.

]]> By: Tome http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307#comment-31289 Tome Thu, 24 Aug 2006 16:38:48 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307#comment-31289 Hello, Its all Greek to me.That's because as a person who is without the advantage of higher education, one can only marvel at the R&D that you and other individuals are doing. In following for my own curiosity the advances of this marvelous new technology i have come to realize that civilization is on the threshold of some very great discoveries. Being in the forefront of the next frontier, just like the New World settlers, encountered problems of the kind that could only be concurred with what became to be know as Yankee Enginewity & shear luck. What they found out was that old world solutions could not be applied to new world challenges.They had to adapt, improvise & observe the results until they got the intended solution to the endless challenges they endured until they reached their destination.Using trial & error & process of elimination they eventually developed a method for others to follow that resulted in blazing a path all the way to the West Coast & amazingly enough to the moon. What I'm getting at is that with all the hurdles, disappointments & successes you will encounter along the way is a pathway for others to follow, learning from your successes & failures & adapting & improvising .You will succeed, it just won't be as you envision. Just A Thought / TM Hello, Its all Greek to me.That’s because as a person who is without the advantage of higher education, one can only marvel at the R&D that you and other individuals are doing. In following for my own curiosity the advances of this marvelous new technology i have come to realize that civilization is on the threshold of some very great discoveries. Being in the forefront of the next frontier, just like the New World settlers, encountered problems of the kind that could only be concurred with what became to be know as Yankee Enginewity & shear luck. What they found out was that old world solutions could not be applied to new world challenges.They had to adapt, improvise & observe the results until they got the intended solution to the endless challenges they endured until they reached their destination.Using trial & error & process of elimination they eventually developed a method for others to follow that resulted in blazing a path all the way to the West Coast & amazingly enough to the moon. What I’m getting at is that with all the hurdles, disappointments & successes you will encounter along the way is a pathway for others to follow, learning from your successes & failures & adapting & improvising .You will succeed, it just won’t be as you envision.

Just A Thought / TM

]]> By: Jonathan http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307#comment-31010 Jonathan Thu, 24 Aug 2006 01:31:31 +0000 http://www.foresight.org/nanodot/?p=2307#comment-31010 While this is pretty dang cool, it doesn't seem to fall upon the traditional bottom-up nanotech that I think about when I hear that phrase with respect to mechanochemistry. It does show that scientists are really pushing the envelop, developing chemistry with more and more precise reactions at smaller and smaller scales. They are really moving away from the stochastic reactions into strongly controlled reactive environments. While this is pretty dang cool, it doesn’t seem to fall upon the traditional bottom-up nanotech that I think about when I hear that phrase with respect to mechanochemistry.

It does show that scientists are really pushing the envelop, developing chemistry with more and more precise reactions at smaller and smaller scales. They are really moving away from the stochastic reactions into strongly controlled reactive environments.

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