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Top-Bottom & Wet-Dry
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The NIST press release that we wrote about on Tuesday contained this passage: In his 1986 book, The Engines of Creation, K. Eric Drexler set down the long-term aim of nanotechnology—to create an assembler, a microscopic device, a robot, that could construct yet smaller devices from individual atoms and molecules. For the last two decades, those researchers who recognized the potential have taken diminutive steps towards such a nanoassembler. Those taking the top-down approach have seen the manipulative power of the atomic force microscope (AFM), a machine that can observe and handle single atoms, as one solution.
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