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Organic chemists make molecules, very complicated molecules, by
chopping up a big molecule into small molecules and reverse
engineering. And as a chemist, one of the things I wanted to ask
my research group a couple of years ago is, could we make a
really cool universal chemistry set? In essence, could we "app"
chemistry? Now what would this mean, and how would we do it?
Well to start to do this, we took a 3D printer and we started to
print our beakers and our test tubes on one side and then print
the molecule at the same time on the other side and combine them
together in what we call reactionware. And so by printing the
vessel and doing the chemistry at the same time, we may start to
access this universal toolkit of chemistry. Now what could this
mean? Well if we can embed biological and chemical networks like
a search engine, so if you have a cell that's ill that you need
to cure or bacteria that you want to kill, if you have this
embedded in your d