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To: zamboz who wrote (86209)9/13/2007 8:31:08 AM
From: yard_man  Read Replies (2) of 110194
 
While it is true that the ability to make new compounds, novel mixtures, etc. transforms material technologies -- that was true before they called it nano-technology and simply called it chemistry.

The thing is -- there are lots of things you can do with a few molecules in the laboratory -- that CAN NEVER be a cost-effective basis for manufacture of a product. There has been no revolution in this area and there won't be. It will be slow steady process, just like it has always been, with the occasional breakthrough.

There are simply tons of different kinds of things that can be prepared in small samples using high tech equipment that will never be manufactured commercially -- what's my point -- the sky is not the limit -- it is much closer to earth.

What Richard Feynmann said several years ago on the subject is still applicable today. At the molecular level we have "fat fingers" -- there is no getting around that.
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