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Reaching nano-world and system creation<br />

PASSIVE NANOSTRUCTURES (in production)<br />

ACTIVE NANOSTRUCTURES (to prototypes)<br />

SYSTEMS OF NANOSYSTEMS (in research)<br />

MOLECULAR NANOSYSTEMS (in concept)<br />

. . Robotics<br />

Biomimetics,<br />

Guided assembling,<br />

Evolutionary . .<br />

Size <strong>of</strong> structure<br />

0.1 m<br />

1 cm<br />

Top down<br />

1 mm<br />

0.1 mm<br />

10 μm<br />

System<br />

creation<br />

1 μm<br />

0.1 μm<br />

Bottom up<br />

10 nm<br />

NANO MICRO MACRO<br />

1 nm<br />

0.1 nm<br />

Utilization <strong>of</strong><br />

Nanoscale Laws<br />

Biological principles<br />

Information technology<br />

Knowledge <strong>of</strong> integration<br />

1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 2040<br />

2060<br />

Reaching<br />

nano-world M.C. Roco, 10/03/05<br />

Converging S&E Diverging architectures<br />

2000 2010 2020<br />

Successive<br />

developments

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