{"id":20951,"date":"2016-01-19T22:47:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-20T06:47:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-self-assembling-molecular-nanoswitch"},"modified":"2017-06-04T20:15:24","modified_gmt":"2017-06-05T03:15:24","slug":"a-self-assembling-molecular-nanoswitch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/a-self-assembling-molecular-nanoswitch","title":{"rendered":"A self-assembling molecular nanoswitch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\\'blog-photo\\' href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-self-assembling-molecular-nanoswitch.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Interesting article about nanoswitches and how this technology enables the self-assembly of molecules. This actually does help progress many efforts such as molecular memory devices, photovoltaics, gas sensors, light emission, etc. However, I see the potential use in nanobot technology as it relates to future alignment mappings with the brain.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<b>Molecular nanoswitch: calculated adsorption geometry of porphine adsorbed at copper bridge site (credit: Moritz M\u00fcller et al.\/J. Chem. Phys.)<\/b><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tum.de\/\" target=\"_blank\">Technical University of Munich<\/a> (TUM) researchers have simulated a self-assembling molecular nanoswitch in a supercomputer study.<\/p>\n<p>As with other current research in bottom-up self-assembly nanoscale techniques, the goal is to further miniaturize electronic devices, overcoming the physical limits of currently used top-down procedures such as photolithography.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kurzweilai.net\/a-self-assembling-molecular-nanoswitch?utm_source=KurzweilAI+Daily+Newsletter&utm_campaign=a4c43f3240-UA-946742-1&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_6de721fb33-a4c43f3240-282205513\" target=\"_blank\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interesting article about nanoswitches and how this technology enables the self-assembly of molecules. This actually does help progress many efforts such as molecular memory devices, photovoltaics, gas sensors, light emission, etc. However, I see the potential use in nanobot technology as it relates to future alignment mappings with the brain. Molecular nanoswitch: calculated adsorption geometry [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":395,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1694,4,47,44],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20951","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-nanotechnology","category-neuroscience","category-supercomputing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/395"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20951"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68799,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20951\/revisions\/68799"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20951"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20951"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20951"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}