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Record 1 1996-07-18

English

Subject field(s)
  • General Vocabulary
DEF

A system built in either electronics, chemistry, biotechnology, or computer science by applying extreme miniaturization principles from molecular machinery and manufacturing.

OBS

See K.E. Drexter "Nanosystems. Molecular Machinery, Manufacturing, and Computation", John Wiley and Sons, 1992.

OBS

Examples of such systems are: lasers that can control chemical reactions, optical tweezers that can correct defects in a single cell, motors as small as molecules of myosin, computer chips the size of bacteria, atom-by-atom building of fruits and vegetables.

OBS

Complex nanosystems can be of macroscopic size.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Vocabulaire général
OBS

Construit par analogie à macrosystème, minisystème, microsystème, etc.

Spanish

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