Welcome to productive nanosystem. A productive nanosystem is a functional nanometer-scale system that makes atomically-specified structures and devices under programmatic control. This is performing manufacturing with atomic precision.
Present-day productive nanosystem technologies are limited in various ways. Large atomically precise structures exist, in the form of crystals. Complex 3D structures exist in the form of polymers such as DNA and proteins. It is also possible to build very small atomically precise structures using scanning probe microscopy to manipulate individual atoms or small groups of atoms. But it is not yet possible to combine components in a systematic way to build larger, more complex systems. Some futurists expect productive nanosystems to exist during the latter part of the second decade of the 21st century – i.e. 2015 to 2020… Thanks for visiting Productive Nanosystem.