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Unrelated de novo enzyme replaces essential enzyme in cell
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Unrelated de novo enzyme replaces essential enzyme in cell

Artificial Molecular Machines, Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM), Bionanotechnology, Feynman Path, Molecular manufacturing, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nano, Nanobiotechnology, Nanodot, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Productive Nanosystems, Research, Roadmaps, World-Shaping Technologies

Unrelated de novo enzyme replaces essential enzyme in cell

By Jim Lewis| 2018-02-05T07:07:29+00:00 February 5th, 2018|Artificial Molecular Machines, Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM), Bionanotechnology, Feynman Path, Molecular manufacturing, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nano, Nanobiotechnology, Nanodot, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Productive Nanosystems, Research, Roadmaps, World-Shaping Technologies|

Iron-rich medium supports the growth of E. coli engineered to no longer have a natural Fes enzyme. They form small, unhealthy, red colonies because they accumulate iron bound to [...]

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Physicists suppress ‘stiction’ force that bedevils microscale machinery
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Physicists suppress ‘stiction’ force that bedevils microscale machinery

Artificial Molecular Machines, Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM), Computational nanotechnology, Feynman Path, MEMS, Molecular manufacturing, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nano, Nanodot, Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Productive Nanosystems, Research, Roadmaps

Physicists suppress ‘stiction’ force that bedevils microscale machinery

By Jim Lewis| 2017-06-01T14:01:59+00:00 April 19th, 2014|Artificial Molecular Machines, Atomically Precise Manufacturing (APM), Computational nanotechnology, Feynman Path, MEMS, Molecular manufacturing, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nano, Nanodot, Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Productive Nanosystems, Research, Roadmaps|

A possible top-down path to atomically precise manufacturing that passes through microscale machinery might be rendered easier because of recent progress in suppressing the Casimir force, which contributes to the 'stiction' problem often encountered with microelectromechanical systems.

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Debate: "How do we get there from here?" at SME nano conference

By Christine Peterson| 2017-06-01T14:04:37+00:00 May 4th, 2010|Feynman Path, Meetings & Conferences, Molecular manufacturing, Molecular Nanotechnology, Nano, Nanodot, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Nanotechnology Politics, Opinion, Productive Nanosystems, Roadmaps|

Here we present a special report from Dave Conz of ASU on Josh Hall’s talk and subsequent panel discussion at the SME nanotech conference. An excerpt: Technoscientific development is difficult [...]

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Matterhorn sculpture demos 3D patterning at 15 nm level (IBM video)

By Christine Peterson| 2017-06-01T14:20:10+00:00 April 29th, 2010|Feynman Path, Nano, Nanodot, Nanoscale Bulk Technologies, Nanotech, Nanotechnology, Research|

PhysOrg.com brings news and a video of a new 3D patterning technique from IBM that reaches down to 15 nm resolution which "could go even smaller": IBM Research in Zurich [...]

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Accelerating Future » RepRap “Mendel” to be Released Soon!

By J. Storrs Hall| 2017-06-01T14:15:57+00:00 October 27th, 2009|Feynman Path, Nanodot|

Accelerating Future » RepRap “Mendel” to be Released Soon!. Nicw round-up with videos of the latest in the Rep-Rap world.

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Nanoscale Wear
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Nanoscale Wear

Feynman Path, MEMS, Nanodot, Nanotechnology

Nanoscale Wear

By J. Storrs Hall| 2017-06-01T14:22:13+00:00 September 10th, 2009|Feynman Path, MEMS, Nanodot, Nanotechnology|

One of the major problems for micromachines, much less nanomachines, is wear. The phenomenon of stiction combines the two worst aspects of surface-to-surface interaction -- a high coefficient of friction [...]

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Haptics

By J. Storrs Hall| 2017-06-01T14:05:24+00:00 August 7th, 2009|Feynman Path, Nanodot|

There's a nice article over at the Singularity Hub that's a round-up of currently-available haptics devices. They seem primarily excited over the prospects of haptics in gaming, but there are [...]

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Self-replicating machines and risk

By J. Storrs Hall| 2017-06-01T14:05:24+00:00 August 3rd, 2009|Feynman Path, Nanodot|

Engineering and analysis in the field of SRMs is unusual in many ways. Eric Drexler has posted a paper about differences in evolutionary capacity in mechanical and biological systems that's [...]

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CCC / CRA Robotics Roadmap

By J. Storrs Hall| 2017-06-01T14:05:25+00:00 July 28th, 2009|Feynman Path, Nanodot, Roadmaps, Robotics|

The CCC/CRA, a consortium of academic computer science departments (essentially), has a roadmap to future robotics that has some implications for the Feynman Path. Some highlights (from the chapter on [...]

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Feynman’s Path to Nanotech (part 10)

By J. Storrs Hall| 2017-06-01T14:05:25+00:00 July 17th, 2009|Feynman Path, Nanodot|

Just Do It It's the 20th anniversary of the first Foresight Conference this year. Over the intervening two decades, one of the most common questions of Foresight members and supporters [...]

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