If solved
Atom-Precise Factories
Devices assemble products exactly from atoms and molecules: materials made to order, hardly any waste.
Open in the interactive tree →If molecular manufacturing works, substances and parts with atom-precisely specified properties become possible. Manufacturing would become compact, clean and flexible. Whether this ever happens is scientifically open.
What it brings
- Materials with properties that are impossible today
- Made-to-order drugs and implants
- Production with little raw material and waste