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Synthesis and processing of nanostructures will employ a diverse array of material types—organic, inorganic, and biological—well beyond examples already realized. The driving forces will be creativity, applications, opportunities, and economics in broad areas of science, medicine, and technology. Increasing emphasis will be placed on synthesis and assembly at a very high degree of precision, achieved through innovative processing. The result will be control of the size, shape, structure, morphology, and connectivity of molecules, supermolecules, nano-objects and nanostructured materials and devices. Integration of top-down physical assembly concepts with bottom-up chemical and biological assembly concepts may be required to create fully functional nanostructures that are operational at mesoscopic scales. The combination of new nanoscale building blocks and new paradigms in assembly strategies will provide nanostructured materials and devices with new, unprecedented capabilities limited only by our imagination.
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Tirrell, M., Requicha, A., Friedlander, S., Hagnauer, G. (2000). Synthesis, Assembly, and Processing of Nanostructures. In: Roco, M.C., Williams, R.S., Alivisatos, P. (eds) Nanotechnology Research Directions: IWGN Workshop Report. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9576-6_4
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