"A team of German scientists has succeeded in creating what they call DNA ëvelcroí to bind and then separate nanoparticles…This experiment could lead, one day, to ëself-constructingí materials…Nanoscience is the revolutionary new field that adopts a ëbottom-upí approach, taking atoms as the point of departure from which to ëartificiallyí create molecular nanosystems with very specific properties." It's actually better than Velcro, because it's customizable. –CP. Update: This work appears related to Nadrian Seeman's.