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... lecular world . The AFM was invented by Binnig , Quate , and Gerber at Stanford University and IBM San Jose in 1985. After the success of the STM , the importance of the AFM was immediately recog- nized . Among other advantages , it ...
... lecular world . The AFM was invented by Binnig , Quate , and Gerber at Stanford University and IBM San Jose in 1985. After the success of the STM , the importance of the AFM was immediately recog- nized . Among other advantages , it ...
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... lecular piece at a time , yet they grow and reproduce quickly . How ? They build in parallel , with many billions of molecular machines working at once . To gain the benefits of such enormous parallelism , researchers can either use ...
... lecular piece at a time , yet they grow and reproduce quickly . How ? They build in parallel , with many billions of molecular machines working at once . To gain the benefits of such enormous parallelism , researchers can either use ...
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... lecular devices in the next five to ten years . It should be possible ultimately to specify a particular design and build it . Then you'll have , say , proteinlike molecules that self - assemble into complex mo- lecular objects , which ...
... lecular devices in the next five to ten years . It should be possible ultimately to specify a particular design and build it . Then you'll have , say , proteinlike molecules that self - assemble into complex mo- lecular objects , which ...
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The Molecular World | 44 |
BottomUp Technology | 57 |
Paths Pioneers and Progress | 84 |
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