There are different ways of manipulating matter at the nanoscale. The two notions you hear most are top-down and bottom-up methods. Michelangelo was a top-down artist. He took one big, raw block of ...

At the heart of bottom-up nanotechnology lies a process driven by thermodynamics and kinetics, rather than the deterministic approaches characteristic of top-down methods. This fundamental difference ...

“I never predict. I just look out of the window and see what is visible—but not yet seen.” Peter Drucker (1909–2005, writer and management consultant). Predicting the future necessitates ...