New nanodesign work from Princeton

From the AAAS website EurekAlert:

โ€œIt has been 20 years since the futurist Eric Drexler daringly predicted a new world where miniaturized robots would build things one molecule at a time. The world of nanotechnology that Drexler envisioned is beginning to come to pass, with scientists conjuring new applications daily.

โ€œNow Salvatore Torquato, a Princeton University scientist, is proposing turning a central concept of nanotechnology on its head. If the theory bears out โ€“ and it is in its infancy โ€” it could have radical implications not just for industries like telecommunications and computers but also for our understanding of the nature of life.

โ€œTorquato and colleagues have published a paper in the Nov. 25 issue of Physical Review Letters, the leading physics journal, outlining a mathematical approach that would enable them to produce desired configurations of nanoparticles by manipulating the manner in which the particles interact with one anotherโ€ฆ.

โ€œInstead of employing the traditional trial-and-error method of self-assembly that is used by nanotechnologists and which is found in nature, Torquato and his colleagues start with an exact blueprint of the nanostructure they want to build.โ€

Folks: despite the explanation attempts in the press release, Iโ€™m finding it hard to understand this. Anyone whoโ€™s read the journal article care to try? Or anyone at all?

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