<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/7225336a-f412-4372-a5b8-1340c5fbf783/9D8A29A4-586A-4636-8556-00CDD9BA2FC8/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/MITtecRvwSmlWrld/article.html" href="http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/MITtecRvwSmlWrld/article.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.zyvex.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/MITtecRvwSmlWrld/article.html"><UL> <li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc006">Introduction.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc015">The advantages of nanotechnology.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc019">Self assembly.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc022">Positional devices and positionally controlled reactions.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc033">Stewart platforms.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc038">The utility of diamond: why it's a dream material.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc050">Positional control and the synthesis of diamond.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc069">Self replication: making things inexpensively.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc082">What will we be able to make?</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc093">Summary of the core technology.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc094">Developmental pathways.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc114">The critics.</A> </LI><li style="margin-left:16px;padding-left: 0px;"><A href="#loc116">How long?</A> </LI></UL></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.zyvex.com/nanotech/MITtecRvwSmlWrld/article.html"> Manufactured products are made from atoms. The properties of those products depend on how those atoms are arranged. If we rearrange the atoms in coal, we get diamonds. If we rearrange the atoms in sand (and add a pinch of impurities) we get computer chips. 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