Molecular nanotechnology: The second industrial revolution!
It´s been claimed that nanotechnology will lead to a second industrial revolution. That might sound like an overstatement, but I don´t think it is. The most promising aspect of nanotechnology is molecular nanotechnology, which will enable us to build atomically precise structures. With help from molecular assemblers/nanofactories we can make raw materials that today are considered to be of almost no value into fantastic super-products almost for free. This can help to solve our challenges of resource scarcity, global warming, and global poverty. ABOUT THE LICENSING OF THE MATERIAL I´VE USED A lot of the pictures I´ve used are in the public domain. And a lot of pictures have a Creative Commons license. You can find links to all the different pictures with CC-license I have used here: (link will appear soon). The links will give you information about the copy-right-holders. Thank you very much to all of the people who have released your work into the public domain, or given it a CC-license! I believe that my use of book-covers qualify very clearly as being fair use: en.wikipedia.org The animation of a nanofactory, as well as the digitally produced image portraying a nanofactory, were produced by Lizard Fire Studios (John Burch): lizardfire.com, and funded by a challenge-grant from nanorex.
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Nanofactory Animation
A nanofactory is a proposed system in which nanomachines (resembling molecular assemblers, or industrial robot arms) would combine molecules to build larger atomically precise parts. These, in turn, would be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to build macroscopic (visible) but still atomically-precise products. A functioning nanofactory could create virtually any product at the cost of only the input raw material and energy.
French Roast – Animation
In filmmaker Fabrice O. Jouberts animated short, French Roast, a situational sketch explores the many layers of human nature.
Nanofactory Animation
A nanofactory is a proposed system in which nanomachines (resembling molecular assemblers, or industrial robot arms) would combine molecules to build larger atomically precise parts. These, in turn, would be assembled by positioning mechanisms of assorted sizes to build macroscopic (visible) but still atomically-precise products. A functioning nanofactory could create virtually any product at the cost of only the input raw material and energy.