Biomolecules and Nanotechnology Evolution has forced innovative
solutions to biomolecular problems. Some may inform the growing
field of nanotechnology The term "nanotechnology" commonly
refers to a speculative field that proposes to build machinery
so small its components are measured on a scale of billionths of
a meter (nanometers) using many of the principles of macroscopic
engineering. In his books, K. Eric Drexler has popularized the
design and computer modeling of many of these machines,
including nano-scale manipulators to build objects atom by atom,
bearings and axles built of diamond-like lattices of carbon,
waterwheel-like pumps to extract and purify molecules and tiny
computers with moving parts whose size is within atomic scale.
The goals of these compelling machines are precision, with every
structure and action controlled at the level of individual
atoms, and parsimony, performing tasks at the minimum size
necessary. You might be surprised to learn that nanotechnology
was perfected more than thr