Bottom up pulls ahead
It looks like the top-down crowd is falling behind in the race for molecular precision. In the linked article, entitled "Chiral KagomeĢ Lattice from Simple Ditopic Molecular Bricks" we see another example of fine atomic precision engineering which mirrors many of the control elements provided in DNA architectures.The next closest top-down approach which is currently shining involves a UV laser building molecularly precise shapes in type III and V elements. However, that is far less developed than the bottom up approaches.
Labels: bottom up, self assembly, top down
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